More and more questions about the Charleroi police action, parliament will meet next week

There are more and more questions from the political corner, after images surfaced on Wednesday of a heavy-handed police crackdown at Charleroi airport in February 2018.

Green Member of Parliament Stefaan Van Hecke calls it “incomprehensible” that the top of the federal police did not see the images until Wednesday, showing how a Slovakian man was brutally attacked by six police officers in his cell at Charlerloi airport. .

According to Van Hecke, Committee P, which supervises the operation of the police services, should actively take up this file. “They did say yesterday that they want to be kept informed of what will happen through disciplinary action, but this is too passive an attitude,” said Van Hecke.

“Where were the executives? Were they there? And if not, why? What are their internal guidelines? Why did those images never flow? Is this an internal communication error or were the images deliberately withheld? Committee P must investigate this urgently and thoroughly. , without interfering with the work of the investigating judge. “

Committee P refutes Van Hecke’s criticism. One service has already questioned the agents involved in 2018 at the request of the court. Since the images were leaked, Committee P has also supervised the internal investigation of the federal police. That should find out what exactly happened and why the top of the police was not aware of the facts.

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