A 41-year-old man was killed on Saturday in an altercation that degenerated at the Anderlecht slaughterhouses, the Brussels-Midi police zone confirmed to Belga after several French-speaking media announced the information. The victim was stabbed several times and succumbed to his injuries.
The exact circumstances of the altercation, which occurred around 8:40 a.m. on Saturday morning, are not yet known. The man attacked was still alive when the police arrived, but the emergency services could not save him and he died an hour later. The Brussels-Midi police zone confirmed that a man had been apprehended and that his interrogation was underway. According to the DH, the people involved in the fight are employees of a butcher shop and the owner tried to intervene. The Brussels public prosecutor’s office dispatched the laboratory and a forensic scientist to the scene.