According to the public prosecutor’s office, an investigating judge issued an arrest warrant against the arrested man on Saturday. He could face a long prison sentence. The investigators initially gave no information on the identity and possible motive of the accused. The man’s van crashed into the terrace of a brasserie and fast-food restaurant in the center of the Belgian capital on Friday afternoon. According to the rescue workers, six people were slightly injured. The driver initially fled, but was arrested in Antwerp on Friday afternoon.
On Friday evening, the public prosecutor’s office was still very cautious about whether the car was intentionally or unintentionally driven into the tables and chairs of the restaurants. “I know that the facts are reminiscent of attacks that have taken place in the past, but we don’t yet know whether this is definitely an attack,” spokeswoman Willemien Baert said at a press conference. It could also have been an accident.
Source: Nachrichten
