This Saturday, February 11, while the election of Miss Belgium 2023 was being held, a firearm attack would have been narrowly avoided.
Shock in the world of Miss. While he had been touched by a wave of happiness with the secret marriage of two Misses and by the victory of Miss USA in the Miss Universe 2023 election, the big family of the Misses failed to be at the heart of a terrible drama this Saturday some time after Miss Roussillon revealed the little cheating linked to her portrait in Miss France 2023. The evening of February 11 marked the election of Miss Belgium 2023. A most important event for the country. However, it almost turned tragic. Indeed, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office explained that a “attack” could have taken place, and was foiled on the Belgian Coast, at La Panne. A man has been arrested near the theater in which the election took place. He was armed.
Eric van der Sijpt, spokesman for Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office, said the gunman was arrested around 5:30 p.m. “near there”, speaking of the theater, this Saturday, February 11. He added thata second gun was later discovered in the quarantined man’s car. This leaves little room for doubt.
Eric van der Sijpt “We probably avoided an attack”
In view of the seriousness of the situation, the first people to arrive on the scene, who came to attend the Miss Belgium 2023 election, were denied access to the theater until the police could inspect the surroundings, as the reported the Belga agency. The election, which was to take place at 8:30 p.m., took one hour latebut was still maintained.
The Flemish newspapers and media specified that the armed man had rented a car from the province of Limburg where he lives. It would be thanks to a person around him that the attack would have been foiled because the latter warned the police in order to thwart the gunman’s plan. Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Eric van der Sijpt said of the suspect’s arrest: “We are not saying anything at this stage about the motivations, that will be the subject of the investigation”Nevertheless “we probably avoided an attack”, he confided. Fortunately, the person close to the age of forty warned the police, who after that did everything possible to prevent the armed man from causing harm. No one yet knows what the suspect’s motivations were, or what plan he had in mind. The evening was thus able to pass without a hitch, under maximum surveillance.