Videos circulating on social networks bear witness to particularly violent scenes: broken windows, damaged urban furniture, and fireworks launched in the middle of the crowd, causing a climate of strong tension. A merchant having even been declared in a coma after a tobacco passage by Brugeois supporters. “The person is not in a coma,” reassures ilse van de Keere, spokesperson for the Brussels-Capital/Ixelles police area. “But I confirm that Brugeois supporters attacked a business in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean and another to Jette.”
These incidents arise on the occasion of the Belgian Football Cup final – won this Sunday by the Bruges club against the RSCA – which caused major crowd movements in the capital. Clashes between supporters broke out in several districts, especially near the central station, on Houba avenue in Strooper, as well as Jette and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. Each time, the police had to intervene to contain the overflows and separate the rival groups. There were a dozen administrative arrests at the end of the afternoon.
According to the SPF Public Health, on the basis of the Belgian Red Cross data and the Emergency Central 112 Brussels, the medical assessment established at 8:00 pm reports 80 people supported by the emergency services, 9 of whom had to be transported to a hospital establishment. A supporter was seriously injured by hand by fireworks.
