The images have toured social networks. The publication on Twitter of a video in which we see two children aged 11 and 13 - one of whom is handcuffed behind the back -, taken by the police to their car, led the Belgian authorities to ask an internal police investigation.
Two Brussels police officers implicated are the subject of an investigation which will have to determine the reasons which pushed the police officers to handcuff the children during an intervention Monday for an attempt of theft of scooter, explained the commissioner Gabriel Evangelisti on the private channel RTL.
While around the world, thousands of people go out into the streets to denounce institutional racism & police violence ...
In #Belgium, we learn that the police arrest and handcuff children. Shocked but not surprised.
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"It's unbelievable that in these troubled times, the police are able to handcuff children"
The two officials intervened after a phone call reporting a robbery, said Denis Goeman, deputy public prosecutor in Brussels. "The investigation then demonstrated that it was an attempt to steal an abandoned scooter on the public highway and the two children, aged 11 and 13, were released," he said. precise.
The decision to handcuff children outraged many witnesses to the scene. “There is certainly a training problem. It is incredible that in these troubled times, the police manage to handcuff children and put pressure on witnesses so that they do not film and do not report the event, that makes a lot of mistakes in one sequence, "said general delegate for children's rights Bernard De Vos.
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