About fifteen drunks were beaten by police while on a school tour. The incident occurred in Lesse, Belgium, where a group of students aged 14 to 16 clashed with some off-duty officials for reasons as yet undetermined. Both police officers and students hail from Molenbeek, an area of Brussels where tensions between the forces of order and the youth have been high for some time.
According to local media reports, the officers had decided to spend a day on the river for a canoe ride and a few beers. According to police reports, some students may have insulted a policewoman. However, the teachers accompanying the students deny that the incident took place and say that some officials used harsh words against their students, even with racist expressions and nicknames.
Whatever the trigger, it is certain that at some point a fight broke out between the agents and some of the students. A police spokesperson said that a dozen children were hospitalized, with police injuries “from mild to very serious”. The prosecutor opened an investigation. The versions of agents and teachers are conflicting. In a video circulating on social media, an off-duty costumed cop appears to ask for a professor’s documents: When the teacher refuses, the agent threatens him by saying, “Don’t worry, your face is on my mind.”
The incident has reignited the debate against the police, who have been repeatedly accused of violence in recent years. Last January, a woman died in Brussels after being arrested for being drunk: she committed suicide, according to the police station, but the family does not believe this rumor. Especially since two inmates died in the same police station in the more uncertain circumstances in the recent past. At the end of 2022, the murder of a police officer by a madman brought thousands of police to the streets in the Belgian capital.
Source: Today IT
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