Police officer in Brussels beaten up again by man di … (Brussels)

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A police officer from the Brussels-Capital police zone was rushed to hospital on Saturday after being beaten by a man who did not wear a mouth mask.

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The incident took place on Saturday afternoon on the Houba De Strooperlaan. When the cop who was with the bicycle told the passer-by about this, the man fled. “But when the cycling policeman came by, it came to a fight in which the policeman was seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital,” confirms Ilse Van De Keere, spokeswoman for the Brussels police.

The suspect could be immediately arrested by agents who had arrived on the scene to reinforce. He will be brought before the public prosecutor’s office. It is yet another case of violence against police officers in Brussels. Because perpetrators of violence against the police were more often immediately released by the public prosecutor’s office in the past, the union has previously called on NSPV not to report corona offenders anymore.

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