“This morning, a prisoner with a confidence function has taken it up,” says Van de Vijver. “We suspect that it has been an impulsive decision for personal reasons.” The prisoner was cleaning at that time in the porter’s lodge of the Bruges prison.
It is a forties who has been sentenced to a punishment of less than five years for drug -related facts. The man had already received several entertainment permits. For example, he had left prison on Friday and he had returned afterwards.
The fact that the man took a walk is a “surprise” for the prison system, just because he had received a nightlife permit on Friday, for example. “We know that there was a personal situation with the man, who was probably the ‘trigger’,” says Van de Vijver.
The man is not a danger to society, it still sounds. Otherwise he would not have been given a confidence function, according to the spokeswoman.