Ingelmunster (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – The 31-year-old man who attacked a 53-year-old member of the public in a café in Ingelmunster without any reason has been detained under suspicion of attempted murder. The man was stabbed in the neck and was critically wounded, though the situation is not life-threatening at the moment – the wounded is alive.
The 31-year-old man with a knife has attacked a 53-year-old café visitor in Ingelmunster without any reason and has been detained for attempted murder. The stabbing occurred in the neck area, and the victim was badly hurt, though his condition is described as stable. Those at the Café were able to restrain the attacker while others alerted the police services.
The victim was said to have been in the centre of Ingelmunster on the instruction of the pub he frequented with his wife on Friday evening. When the couple reached his car, which was parked at the town hall at 8 p.m., the man was attacked and stabbed in the neck.
The victim returned to the cafè, where the customers looked after him. He was then transferred to AZ Delta in Roeselare with severe injuries, some days later. It is very sad.
his man was in a very critical condition, but now he has come out of danger. However, a number of patrons at the café had been able to subdue the attacker on their own before the arrival of the police was called.
As the public prosecutor’s office pointed out, it can be seen from camera footage that there is no rational choice of facts. The police were also able to recover the knife which was used in the stabbing process. It would be evident that the suspect was under the influence of a substance and that there were substances on him.
The perpetrator was questioned today. Based on the investigation, the judge ordered him to be detained on the charges of attempting to commit murder.
How does this case compare to past incidents?
A 31-year-old man was caught by the people in the café and handed over to the police for attempted murder after he had been found to be under the influence of substances and in possession of the same during the attack. There have been other violent attacks in Belgium which were random and racially motivated.
One of these includes the attack carried out by Hans Van Themsche in 2006, in which he shot and killed non-European individuals. Such incidents, such as the Ingelmunster stabbing, were often carried out by individuals with substance dependency problems or those suffering from mental disorders in Belgium, who have significant problems with mental health services, which offer places much further down the line and are much more expensive.
Brussels has also been scrutinised for not doing enough to prevent violent unarmed robbery and for having poorly policed neighbourhoods such as Molenbeek, which is associated with radicalisation and crime syndicates. Nevertheless, local cases like the one in Ingelmunster suggest that substance-facilitated violence still exists and is more prevalent in small Belgian towns that portray a low overall homicide rate, which was 1.95 per 100,000 in 2015.
The incident in Liège led to stricter regulations of firearms, although knife incidents show that it remains a challenge to track the consumption of alcohol and prevent episodes of the sudden use of violence.
