An armed man was arrested this morning after entering 16 Rue de la Loi, Brussels police and a spokesman for Prime Minister Alexander De Croo have confirmed.
According to reports, the suspect – who is said to have already been the subject of a Nixon procedure, a psychiatric observation requested by the judicial authorities – came with a steak knife and shouted ‘Allah Akbar’. ‘He is said to be radicalised and has already been arrested for making a threat against the US embassy,’ said an informed source.
According to the HLN news agency, the VTM news camera crew was asked to wait in the house ‘due to a threat’. A man armed with a knife was arrested when he attempted to enter the residence of Prime Minister Alexander de Croo. This was reported by Barend Leyts, communications director of the resigned prime minister, and the information was confirmed by the Brussels police.
This incident occurred while the federal negotiations were continuing.
Questioned by one of our journalists, the Director of Communications, Barend Leyts, stated. ‘ A man armed with a knife was overpowered by the military police. The man was taken to the police station. The military police officers were not injured in the incident’.
Police told VRT that the man allegedly made threats against the soldiers present. ‘They overpowered him while waiting for our police, who are also in charge of the investigation.’
The Prime Minister nevertheless stated via Barend Leyts that he was ‘shocked by the incident’. ‘We would like to expressly thank the officers of the military police. We are monitoring the situation very closely together with the police. We are relieved that no one was injured in the incident,’ the Prime Minister replied to Belga via his communications director.
On X, the Prime Minister expressed his thanks to the military police for their efforts.