BRUSSELS: A Belgian police officer received a knife wound to the head and his alleged attacker was shot and seriously wounded on Monday, Brussels police said.
The city prosecutor’s office said the attacker was a Belgian national “of Egyptian origin” who was born in 1975 and appears to be homeless.
The incident took place near Parc Maximilien, an area known as a gathering point for mainly North African immigrants hoping to head on to Britain, police spokeswoman Ilse Van Der Keere said.
According to prosecutors, an officer had found the suspect resting on a pavement and had asked him to move on, whereupon the individual drew a knife.
Officials said the suspect lunged with the knife and was in turn wounded in the head and leg when a second officer opened fire three times.
“His medical condition has stabilized but he is not yet ready to be interviewed,” the prosecutor’s office said. In an earlier statement, officials had said they had no reason to suspect terrorism.
Knife attacker wounds Belgian police officer
Knife attacker wounds Belgian police officer
- The city prosecutor’s office said the attacker was a Belgian national “of Egyptian origin”
- Officials said the suspect lunged with the knife and was in turn wounded in the head and leg when a second officer opened fire three times
Brazil’s Lula accuses Trump of seeking to forge ‘new UN’
- Lula defended multilateralism against what he called “the law of the jungle” in global affairs
- Key US allies including France and Britain have also expressed doubts
BRASILIA: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Donald Trump on Friday of trying to create “a new UN” with his proposed “Board of Peace.”
The veteran leftist joins other world leaders who have avoided signing up for Trump’s new global conflict resolution organization, where a permanent seat costs $1 billion and the chairman is Trump himself.
“Instead of fixing” the United Nations, “what’s happening? President Trump is proposing to create a new UN where only he is the owner,” Lula said.
Trump unveiled his “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos Thursday, joined on stage by leaders and officials from 19 countries to sign its founding charter.
Lula defended multilateralism against what he called “the law of the jungle” in global affairs.
His remarks come a day after he spoke by phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who urged his counterpart to safeguard the “central role” of the United Nations in international affairs.
In his remarks on Friday, Lula said “the UN charter is being torn.”
Although originally intended to oversee Gaza’s rebuilding, the board’s charter does not seem to limit its role to the Palestinian territory and appears to want to rival the United Nations.
Key US allies including France and Britain have also expressed doubts.
London balked at the inclusion of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces are fighting in Ukraine after invading in 2022.
France said the charter as it currently stood was “incompatible” with its international commitments, especially its UN membership.
