during the election of Miss Belgium, an attack foiled

Behind the walls of the De Panne theater (Belgium), the gala evening almost turned into horror on Saturday 11 February. According to justice, the Miss Belgium contest was targeted by a terrorist attack. The attack was foiled at the last moment. “I was very, very scared going up on stage. I was very, very afraid of finding myself as some found themselves at the Bataclan“, confided on his Instagram account Gaetan Bartosz, the presenter of the ceremony.

Several weapons and a bulletproof vest found

A few hours before the evening, the police are informed of a threat. She then calls a 46-year-old man. On board his vehicle are several weapons and a bulletproof vest. The room where the competition was taking place was evacuated in an emergency. The individual was charged with attempted terrorism. However, justice remains unclear about his motives, since he is “never appeared nor in the radars of the intelligence services“, neither “police services“, informs Erik Duyse, the spokesman of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office.