We now know more about this major police intervention which paralyzed the rue du Mambourg, in Charleroi, this Sunday in the middle of the day. It was nearly 1 p.m. when several explosions rang out in the usually relatively quiet street. While we were initially talking about a violent robbery that occurred in the Nador butcher’s shop, the Charleroi public prosecutor’s office informs us that we are moving instead towards a settling of scores.
While walking down the street, a man was shot. Several shots were heard in the street, three bullets lodged in the victim’s legs. On the spot, we still spot the traces of several casings, highlighted by the investigators. “He was still able to find refuge in the butcher’s shop a few meters away, still open. But it was not the butcher who was targeted, “says the Charleroi prosecutor’s office.
►► Many in the neighborhood heard the gunshots but few dare to speak out, preferring to stay in the background and so avoid possible reprisals.