A gunman arrested the previous day for threatening to attack the competition lady belgium charged this sunday The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the terrorist attempted to kill.
The investigating judge in Bruges (west) ordered the arrest of 46-year-old Peter C., accused of “terrorist assassination attempt”.
review judge He has not yet made a decision about the Dutch woman who accompanied the accused at the time of his arrest. On Saturday afternoon, driving a rental car to a competition at a theater in the town of De Panne.
According to the prosecution, Peter C. will have to appear before the Council Chamber of the Bruges Court of First Instance within five days.
Prosecution spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said on Saturday that the suspect was “I wanted to make a commitment attempt, I wanted to do something that could end very badly.”
The man was arrested wearing a bulletproof vest and heavily armed, but there was no police record, according to the newspaper ‘Le Soir’.
Police in the Limburg area (northeast) learned of an email the suspect sent to his ex-wife on Saturday afternoon, in which he stated: She was going to take a “blood bath” in the Miss Belgium pageant. He took the threat seriously, according to information from the newspaper “Nieuwsblad”.
Just before the gala began, a large police unit was tasked with evacuating the theater room where he would be held to search for weapons and watch the way to the venue.
suspicious Before he could catch up with the incident, he was arrested and taken to police stations..
The organizers of the competition decided to delay the start of the show by one hour and warned the audience that the entire hall had to be checked. “Due to security issue”.