Brussels Court Orders Psychiatric Detention for Suspect in Fatal Stabbing of Mother

On May 30, around 7:40 p.m., as Mounia Ouyahia, a mother of three children, was walking in the street with her baby in a stroller, she received knife blows to the neck, at the intersection of Rue des Deux Maisons and Avenue du Cimetière in Brussels, in Evere. Admitted to the hospital, she will succumb to her injuries.

The investigators arrested a 26-year-old man whom passers-by recognized as the potential perpetrator of the murder. A few days before the incident, he had already been arrested on Rue de Brabant in Schaerbeek for threatening a passer-by with a knife. During his interrogation, he had denied the facts. But a security camera near the crime scene proves that he was indeed at the scene of the crime and is the perpetrator. A knife and a blood-stained sweatshirt were found at his home during a search.

The suspect had claimed to have acted "in the name of the devil." The investigating judge had appointed psychiatric experts to examine him. They concluded that he suffered from severe mental disorders. On Friday, the Brussels council chamber ordered his internment, reports Belga.