Images broadcast on social networks show a woman maintained on the ground by several agents. According to the prosecution, blows were brought both by one of the security agents and by another person involved in the incident. “”On August 8, security officers intervened at the Brussels-North station against people who could not present a valid transport title“, Specifies the spokesperson for the prosecution, Laura Demullier.
“During this intervention, blows would have been exchanged: one by one person involved, the other by a security agent. The Brussels prosecutor’s office opened two files for voluntary assaults and injuries: one dependent on the person involved, the other dependent on the security agent.“
In the interest of the survey, no other information will be communicated for the moment. In response to this incident, a demonstration is scheduled for Friday in front of Brussels-Central station. It is organized by a collective citizen who claims to support women involved and requests the opening of an independent investigation, public apology from the SNCB as well as the immediate suspension of the security agents concerned.
A video shows two agents tackling a mother and her sister, who came from Norway, violently, after having accused them of being in possession of false papers. The victim’s daughter told Sudinfo that the two women had their transport titles in good standing and that passports were authentic. She denounces a “free humiliation“And report that one of the agents would have told the two racialized women:”Here, it’s not Norway, we are in Belgium!”
