Koekelberg stabbing fire: mother baby attacked Belgium tragedy

Horror struck at dawn on Jules Besme street. Without the slightest history of conflict in sixteen years, a tenant on the top floor set fire to his apartment before coming down armed with a knife. He violently attacked Yasmine, 30, and her three-month-old baby in their sleep, inflicting multiple wounds on them. Alerted by screams, Nabil, the 34-year-old father, managed to push the attacker down the stairwell at the risk of his own life, narrowly avoiding asphyxiation from smoke, according to details reported by DHnet.

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The rapid intervention of police officers made it possible to extract the attacker from the flames, which he had apparently fueled with gasoline, while firefighters secured the building which had become uninhabitable. Taken to hospital as an emergency, the family remains deeply wounded, unsure whether the individual is now incarcerated or roaming free. "We prefer to focus on our recovery, on our care," Nabil confides, still shaken by this outburst of violence and refocused on the survival of his loved ones.

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Added to the psychological shock is an urgent material concern. Temporarily housed at the Manos hotel in Saint-Gilles, the disaster victims fear an imminent end to their insurance coverage, with a deadline set around June 1st. Faced with the lack of initial communication denounced by the victims, Mayor Olivia P’tito assures that her services are actively mobilizing to find a lasting solution. For his part, the family’s lawyer demands that justice give this tragedy all the attention its extreme gravity requires.