A news that will only fuel rumors around a terrorist attack… Indeed, Saturday, February 11, the election of Miss Belgium almost turned into a tragedy. In particular when the police went to the Plopsa theater in De Panne which hosted the 2023 edition of the competition. These, present at the scene after being warned that a 46-year-old man wanted to commit an attack as revealed Newblad. “The man was arrested with a weapon in his pocket and a weapon in his vehicle”said Éric van der Sijpt, spokesman for the federal prosecution before specifying: “He wanted to commit an attack. An attack was avoided, something that could have ended very badly”.
The case was then assigned to “an investigating judge of the judicial district of West Flanders, division of Bruges”. According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect would therefore be a 46-year-old Belgian, “Peter C.”, who was charged with “terrorist assassination attempt” then imprisoned on Sunday February 12. Placed in pre-trial detention by the investigating judge, “Peter C.” was in the company of a woman of Dutch nationality, also arrested and presented to the investigating judge in Bruges in charge of the investigation.
Chayenne Van Aarle, victim of death threats
According to information from the Flemish public channel TRV, “Peter C.” would be a resident of Lommel (north-east) and would have experienced a breakup a short time ago. A rupture which, associated with “mental issues” with whom the suspect “to debate”would therefore have played on his “project”. For the evening, he had rented a car and bought two tickets for the Miss Belgium competition. It was a relative, to whom he had entrusted this displacement project, who made the choice to alert the police according to several Flemish media.
At the same time, our colleagues from 7out7 inform us that Chayenne Van Aarle, Miss Belgium 2022, has been the subject of numerous death threats on social networks. In fact, his home was the subject of enhanced surveillance on Friday, February 10 and a complaint was filed. No one knows at this time whether the death threats and the foiled terrorist attack are linked.
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