The driver, intoxicated, caused the death of six people in Hainaut.
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It was to be the day of a carnival so long after two years of Pandemic of Covid-19. The day of a popular and joyful festival, as a secular tradition does in this corner of the Belgian Hainaut. At 5:10 am, Sunday, March 20, the procession left the sports center of Stréty-Bracquegnies, a village near the Louvière, south of Brussels. It was the time of the “pickup”: some 150 participants went fetched, from house in house, the Gilles, central characters of the day which, in tricolor costume with collar, hooves and feather headdress, were preparing for Beat the pavement for hours, the sound of brass and drums.
In the street of Canadians, in the center of the town, a long artery that adjoins workers and recent construction houses, a black BMW with two men on board suddenly arisen at very high speed and hit the crowd rear. Provisional record: Six deaths, a dozen wounded in critical condition and thirty other people more slightly reached. The shock has been incredible violence, tell witnesses awakened with a start. “Cree, crying, flexed bodies, it was apocalyptic,” said Fabrice Collignon, a host of the beautiful RTL radio present on the spot and close by the car. The driver of it has apparently not braked. Even when his windshield burst stolers, even when he dragged a body. The survey should determine whether the offset and automatic vehicle braking device had been disconnected.
CARNIVAL CANCELED
The sedan was found some 700 meters further and two thirties, two cousins renowned for their love of speed according to one of their neighbors, were quickly apprehended and indicted for murder. Originally from the Louvière, they would not have “no criminal record for rolling facts”, first indicated the judicial authorities before becoming evolving: one of them had already suffered a license withdrawal. They also formally denied that the BMW would have been pursued by a police vehicle. “The patrols had all returned to the police stations and cars are equipped with geolocation devices that allow them to trace them,” said Sunday night, Eddy Maillet, the head of the Louvière area.
The parquet has, for its part, also dismissed a possible terrorist track. Alcohol tests made shortly after the facts would have been positive, toxicological analyzes only to deliver their results only in the day of Monday. The two occupants came back to a discotheque. A search was conducted at home.
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