On the side of the commune of Schaerbeek, which is not behind these interventions on the different trees, it is misunderstanding. “There is no tag or message left next to these acts of vandalism. We have no idea of the motivations of such an act. We first said that it was to pass a message compared to parking spaces but, rue de l’Agriculture, the affected trees were on the sidewalk. Remove them would not release any parking space, Note the alderman in charge of green spaces, Deborah Lorenzino. A neighbor also told us that they could be bored young people. “
In all cases, the reports for the acts committed in the night from Thursday to last Friday and from Monday to Tuesday were made to the police and an investigation is underway. “We really don’t understand. We are a little disturbed, concedes the alderman. Normally, we rather have shields when we put trees ourselves. “
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The bourgmestre Audrey Henry, announces us later on the day of Tuesday that a suspect was arrested and that a file was opened for degradation. Obviously the suspect was arrested during the night of Monday to Tuesday. “I congratulate the area for its rapid intervention in a file which obviously arouses the stir in the full heat period when greening shows all its interest.”
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Internet users who noticed the damage this Tuesday morning ensure that a similar case had already occurred in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. Philippe Jaquemyns, alderman in charge of green spaces in this town, does not remember. “On the other hand, what often happens are unscrupulous moving companies that cut a branch or two to be able to have more space to work. It is very frequent during peaks of moves. We also have the case with residents who see a completely sawn tree and who come to complain to the town. But often, it is the commune itself which has shot it for health reasons. Fall for example. “
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On the Schaerbeekis side, we assure that the will is to replant the vandalized trees by the serial sawyer. “We have a few months before us before the planting season in November,” concludes the alderman who specifies that a health monitoring of damaged but not entirely sawn trees will be set up.
Even if the method and the district are the same, nothing officially indicates for the moment that the affair last Friday is linked to that of Tuesday for which the suspect was arrested. And concerning the motivations of the suspect, internally, we are told that he would have been “inconvenienced” by the trees.
