He was later described by the Belgian prosecutors office as mentally unwell. “It’s a mentally unstable person,” a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. Officers fired their guns at the vehicle’s wheels after it became stuck in traffic and the driver reversed into a police car. Many suspects linked to those attacks and the November 2015 massacre in Paris lived in or regularly passed through Molenbeek. Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt later said that many lives had been saved by the technical failure of the device.

Source: The Guardian August 08, 2017 17:18 UTC