A 52-year-old man from Geldrop died on Tuesday evening, three days after he became involved in an argument in his hometown. At the Heuvel, a number of people were beaten back and forth last weekend. The now deceased man from Geldrop was injured.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday 5 June, a quarrel arose between several people at a terrace in Geldrop. The argument got out of hand, after which witnesses were beaten back and forth, according to witnesses. Police are not yet able to say for sure that the fight is also the direct cause of the man’s death. That is still under investigation.
Shortly after the incident, the police arrested a 55-year-old man from Geldrop. He has since been released, but remains a suspect in the investigation. The police are still looking for witnesses or CCTV footage to clarify exactly what happened that night.
Owner cafe provides help
According to the police, the fight happened at the terrace of a cafe, but the cafe owner Peter de Beer says that this is not correct. According to him, the fight happened at two o’clock in the morning, when his cafe was already closed. “We were in the process of closing the place when someone came in to ask for help. I walked out and there was a man lying in the middle of the road, unconscious. This wasn’t on my patio, it happened in the middle of the road. public road,” he says.
An employee of De Beer came to the rescue. He called 911 and together they placed him in the recovery position. De Beer finds it painful that his cafe is named as a location by the police, while according to him it was not here. “We opened recently, and then our name gets involved. But it also happened near other cafes. There are only losers here.”
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