Six people have died after a car drove into a carnival crowd in La Louvière, Belgium on Sunday. Fabrice, who was preparing to participate in the festive event on Sunday morning, recounts his amazement.
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“It was screaming all over the place“: Fabrice is still in shock, like a large part of Belgium. On Sunday March 20, around 5 a.m., a car drove into a hundred people gathered to prepare for the annual carnival parade in a street in the town. of Strepy-Bracquegnies, in the south of Belgium, near La Louvière.
“We walked down a street in a straight line. They really came from behind. No one heard them coming. Imagine 100 people and a car slamming into 100 people at high speed, some say 90 km/h. They sent everyone up in the air. And you imagine the bodily damage at that time, says the survivor. It was extremely violent. It lasted long enough to snap my fingers and that car didn’t even stop. This car is gone and it’s screaming all over the place. I don’t like the term, but in my opinion it is deliberate. I just want to ask them why you did that?“, asks Fabrice.
“In the current state of the investigation, the terrorist track is not privileged“, specifies Damien Verheyen, deputy of the public prosecutor, during a press conference. He evokes “six deaths, [d’au moins] 26 injured at various stages and 10 people whose lives are currently in danger“.
“The car pulverized a large number of people, continuing on its way, before being immobilized a little further“, adds the mayor of the city Jacques Gobert. On board this car, “two people born in 1988 and 1990“Originally from the town who were arrested, says Deputy Crown Prosecutor Damien Verheyen. The driver of the big black German sedan nor his passengers are known to the courts: toxicological analyzes as well as an expertise of the car itself to determine a possible mechanical problem are in progress.