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Post by pieter on Jan 15, 2019 9:51:26 GMT -7
 Police trace lorry driver suspected of running over yellow vest protester Belgian police have identified a Dutch lorry driver who is suspected of deliberately running over a ‘yellow vest’ protester at a motorway blockade near the border. The 50-year-old demonstrator died at the scene of the protest in Visé, between Maastricht and Liège on Friday evening. Between 20 and 30 protesters blocked the motorway and allowed cars to pass through but not lorries, but one Dutch-registered lorry refused to stop and knocked down the victim. Belgian police arrested another Dutch lorry driver on Saturday evening in what turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. The man from Dongen was recorded driving across the border into the Netherlands immediately after the incident in a lorry that was similar to the one involved in the incident. Further enquiries revealed that the lorry in question had turned off the motorway in Belgium and crossed the border by a different route. Police traced the vehicle via the numberplate given by eyewitnesses and released the other driver, who had been held in custody since Friday. The suspect, from Landgraaf in Limburg, has not been arrested, NOS reported.
Comment Pieter: I am not defending the Dutch truck driver, but I heard the story of Dutch colleages who told the Dutch truck driver was isolated on a Walloon (French speaking part of Belgium) piece of highway. The yellow vest let cars drive by but the Dutch driver was isolated by the yellow vests and surrounded. They smashed his side windows and front windows with iron bars and the man was in pannick and drove off. |
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Post by pieter on Jan 15, 2019 9:53:20 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Jan 15, 2019 14:15:14 GMT -7
Pieter
A matter of temperment or do two wrongs make a right? The protester was being a big butt and the lorry operator simply wanted to get home.. How ever reality then sticks its big head,,for the lorry then becomes a weapon with striking over the protester that should not have been obstructing traffic on a well used public motor way..
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Jan 15, 2019 22:10:28 GMT -7
This is a sad accident. Maybe this guy had a road rage?
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Post by pieter on Jan 16, 2019 2:04:59 GMT -7
It is a tragic incident for both the victims family and the truck driver and his family. The Yellow vests shouldn't hinder and attack foreign trucks, because these drivers fight hard for their income and survival. They often have low wages, are extremely long hours on the road, and just want to go home after a very long drive. Stressed, isolated and under siege these truckdrivers under huge pressure can go into a road rage or in some cases just safe their lives if they are attacked by criminals, demonstrators or desperate refugees who want to climbe into their trucks and threaten these drivers or put them under huge pressure.
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Post by pieter on Jan 16, 2019 2:07:46 GMT -7
Both the truck drivers and the yellow vests suffer under rising living costs, energy coasts, rising taxes, rising fuel prises and thus less income. The yellow vests should understand that these truck divers are fighting to survive and that these blokkades are disastrous for these hard working men and women. Time is money in the truck drivers branche.
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Post by pieter on Jan 16, 2019 2:24:33 GMT -7
The truck driver from Landgraaf (Limburg, Netherlands) who is suspected of the death of a demonstrator in a yellow vest last Friday, is said to have been attacked by ten to twenty people that night.
The attackers wore black camouflage suits and balaclavas. "He has not seen one yellow jacket," says his lawyer Richard Wagemans to L1 (Line one), a Dutch radio newsprogram.
The suspect is at liberty and gets security in the Netherlands at the request of the Belgian justice because they fear of revenge by demonstrators in yellow vests.'Not premeditated'According to Wagemans, the trucker convinced the examining magistrate "that he did not prematurely or otherwise commit a criminal offense."
The lawyer speaks of "a good story". The driver's lecture is that his car was "totally beaten up", causing him to panic. "Then he slowly drove forward."
According to his lawyer, the man did not realize that someone had been run over. "Only after the weekend did he hear in a telephone call from the police that he was a suspect."'Disconnecting windows'Earlier, a colleague trucker told a similar story about the incident to RTL Nieuws. "His windows were shattered and the door was smashed, the man was very anxious."
Protesters in yellow vests blocked the highway from Liège (Belgium) to Maastricht (the Netherlands) on Friday. Passenger cars were allowed to drive, trucks not.
The truck of the man from Landgraaf was stopped, but the driver drove on. He touched a 50-year-old demonstrator who died on the spot.Source: The Dutch public broadcaster NOS (translation Google translate and Pieter)Source: nos.nl/artikel/2267678-verdachte-doodrijden-geel-hesje-was-in-paniek-na-overval-door-twintig-man.html
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