It’s an evening that Fatiha (30 years old) is unlikely to forget. Saturday evening, the young thirty-year-old enjoyed a good evening with friends at the “Wok van Antwerpen” restaurant. Around 9:30 p.m., the evening slowly comes to an end and the group decides to head to the cash register to pay the bill.
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Inattentive for a few seconds, Fatiha does not see her 2-year-old son slip inside a gripper machine. Panic quickly seizes the young mother and the customers. “She fainted and we called the emergency services,” her sister, Sara, told Het Laatste Nieuws.
“They didn’t have the keys”
However, the restaurant staff refused to help the family by opening the machine. “They told us that they did not have the keys because it was rented to an outside company,” the sister continues, scandalized.
We will ultimately have to wait for customers to intervene to cause the machine and free the toddler. “They unplugged the machine and then a man of Moroccan origin broke the window with his fist,” Sara continues. “His hand was covered in blood and swollen. »
Unconscious for 1 hour
An intervention that Fatiha did not attend since she remained unconscious for more than an hour. The staff also offered no help towards the young woman. “They kept watching and they collected the payments,” concludes Sara.
It was ultimately the emergency services who took charge of the young woman as well as the toddler, in a state of shock following the general panic that had broken out.
