On February 11, the election of Miss Belgium 2023 took place at the theater in La Panne. A ceremony that almost turned into a tragedy since a man planning to carry out an attack was arrested. A shock for Gaetan Bartosz who hosted the evening. Guest of Faustine Bollaert on the set of her show It starts today this Wednesday, May 10, 2023, the host lifted the veil on the underside of this traumatic event.
“I really take my hat off to the Belgian police and justice, which has done its job really well. When they do it badly, we say so, but when they do it well too. Already, they have evacuated everyone in the calm. So the public didn’t really notice it. It happened really without panic with an incredible smoothness. And then at one point, when the committee heard that we were not very keen to go up on the set, the mayor came to see us, the superintendent also to explain to us a bit what had happened. How they were able to control the situation at that time, etc. They reassured us by saying: ‘We have police everywhere, on the roof, at each entrance, we searched the room, the dogs searched the room for about twenty minutes. Everything was combed through. A priori, there was no longer any real risk “, he said. According to him, everything happened very quickly.
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If the situation seemed under control, the mayor and the commissioner still asked Gaetan Bartosz if he “felt capable of getting on set”. An essential question according to Marc Geiger who believes that “the judicial authority must give the green light because it is she who determines the absence or presence of a potential danger”. However, he also assures that it was risky to make such a decision. “In a story like that, it was quite tricky in the sense that unfortunately history teaches us that in general, in this kind of behavior, they are never alone. They are often two, three, four precisely so that if one is arrested, the others can continue. They had that risk.”
For his part, Gaetan Bartosz finally agreed to take the antenna after having telephoned his relatives. “Ona all the pictures of what happened at the bataclan. I want to say that I absolutely do not compare, it’s my feelings and the image I had in my head. During the whole ceremony, I looked at the entrances that were in front of me”. A chilling tale.
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