A few hours after his arrest, a 25-year-old man broke a toilet in a prison in Brussels, Belgium and escaped through a hole in the wall, according to police. From that hole he landed in an underground corridor, where he climbed through a window straight onto the street. The security cameras in the detention cell were not working at the time of the incident
Brussels police announced that a 25-year-old man had escaped from a holding cell after uprooting his toilet. The fugitive “dismantled the toilet from the wall and slipped out through a hole no bigger than an A4 page,” a police spokesman told the AFP news agency. From that hole he landed in an underground corridor, where he climbed to the window and jumped into the street, the spokesman added.
According to the Belgian channel VRT, the police said that the security cameras in the detention cell were not working at the time of the incident. The man was previously convicted of assault and drug crimes. He was wanted by the public prosecutor’s office of West Flanders.
The case against him was opened for disobeying a police order, the police arrested the 25-year-old Grave on Monday evening for violating his parole in the ongoing case and held him at the police station in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels. He was released from jail a few hours later, police said.
“In the end he got out through a window,” said Jean-Marc Goossens, spokesman for the Brussels-West police region. “He didn’t go out through the front door, because there is someone guarding there.”
A few months ago there was a similar and unusual escape attempt outside the police station building in Molenbeek. Two men tried to set fire to the building using a Molotov cocktail, a car parked nearby at the time burned, but the two were unable to escape.