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2023-10-09 06:58:00

A lady lost her life last week in Spain, according to La Vanguardia and Diari Mes. While her husband went for a walk, this 72-year-old Belgian wanted to take advantage of the shared swimming pool of the complex in Riumar to go for a swim.

The vacation then turned into a tragedy since the lady drowned. Found by a maintenance worker at 7:15 p.m., it was too late for emergency services to do anything.

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2023-10-09 07:31:46

A police commissioner from the Brussels-West police zone is suspected of moral and sexual harassment, as well as rape of around ten colleagues. Pretext image. – Belga Image. By Belga Published on 9/10/2023 at 09:31 Reading time: 2 min

The Brussels labor prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into a 31-year-old police commissioner from the Brussels-West police zone. The man is accused of moral and sexual harassment of around ten young police officers. It would also be a question of rape, they wrote on Monday The capital et The newspapaer.

The events allegedly took place both at his home in the Verviers region and at the police station. The main inspector would thus have started a relationship with these women, then would have gone further and further.

It was only when two women denounced the facts that things began to move. At the beginning of September, investigators from the General Inspectorate went to a police station in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe to arrest the man and take him to his home in the Verviers region, where a search took place.

Since then, the inspector, transferred to another police station, has no longer shown up for work. His lawyer indicated in The newspapaer et The capital that his client did not wish to make any comment on this subject. The labor auditor does not comment either.

The inspector was not arrested or suspended. The police zone, however, confirms that an administrative investigation is underway, in addition to a judicial investigation.

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2023-10-09 07:09:17

The explosion took place at an oven, causing a fire which was brought under control by firefighters.

An explosion occurred this Monday, October 9 at 5:40 a.m., at a beet fiber dehydration oven at the Tereos sugar factory, in Bucy-le-Long, near Soissons.

Two people were slightly injured, indicates the prefecture, and taken care of by emergency services, and 80 employees were brought to safety. The explosion also resulted in the destruction of the roof of a 1,500 m² building, in which a fire broke out. He was brought under control by firefighters.

The company’s internal operation plan has been implemented. Firefighters set up a security perimeter around the affected building. More than 20 engines and 50 firefighters (from Soissons, Laon, Fère-en-Tardenois, Braine and Chauny) are mobilized on site, as well as the gendarmerie, Dreal, Enedis and GRDF.

The presence of asbestos in the destroyed roof led to the installation of water spraying to reduce the dust to the ground. Analyzes will be carried out. According to the prefecture, the weather conditions will prevent the spread of this dust outside the company site.

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