In Belgium, a person attacked a tanker driver with an axe. The person who managed to escape the ambush filed a complaint with the local police. According to investigators, the incident may be somehow linked to pollution from Pfas, the so-called “forever chemicals” that are disrupting the daily lives of some small-town residents in the country’s French-speaking region of Wallonia.
Attack with axe
The ambush occurred on Wednesday, December 20, in Modave, a Belgian municipality not far from Liège. At around 7.30pm, a resident attacked a vehicle carrying water from the town of Ramelot to the Marnage reservoir. According to initial information obtained by local media, the man suddenly jumped onto the road, attacked the driver and then hit the door of the cabin with an axe. The truck driver, who managed to escape the violence, went to the police station in the Condroz area to check the damage and also managed to show the police the house where the maniac apparently came. Police teams later went to the scene and caught the perpetrator of the attack. Investigators are now trying to understand the reasons for this crazy act, based on the events that have affected the population in the area where the attack occurred in recent weeks.
Water contaminated by Pfas
Since December 8, a crisis has broken out in six villages in the Condroz region due to the excessive presence of Pfas, the so-called “forever chemicals” that can pollute water supplies for a very long time. Pollution observed in the Armoulin and Marnave river basins made the water unfit for food consumption by more than two thousand families. The company called Iden, which manages water distribution to deal with the emergency, rented a series of tankers from a private company to supply “healthy” water from the adjacent area to the basin in the area. For a week, two tanker trucks operated 24 hours a day between the towns of Ramelot and Outrelouxhe.
As of December 18, the problem was partially solved by urgently laying a pipe that will directly feed the water towers of the districts affected by the pollution. However, following leakage and pressure problems, the Iden company had to urgently recall two tankers to continue water supply while waiting for the problem to be resolved. Faced with the coming and going of new trucks, the citizens of the relevant village were disturbed by this, and one of the village residents may have lost his mind and attacked the tanker driver. Although surprising, this is one of the hypotheses that researchers are examining.
Source: Today IT
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