Unsuspectingly, a man from Breda thought he was going out with his girlfriend at the beginning of this year, when he was suddenly hit in the face with a glass during a toilet visit. “When I looked down, all I saw was blood.” The police are now sharing images of the suspect in Bureau Brabant.
It went wrong on the night of 19 to 20 February, in the toilet of a cafe on the Halstraat in Breda. “The lockdown was over, everything was open again and I wanted to have a bite to eat with my girlfriend. Then we went to the cafe for a drink.”
“He hit me so hard in the face with a glass that I collapsed.”
Around half past one in the morning, the man goes to the toilet. “While waiting, I was talking to someone when someone came in. He started banging on the door of a closed toilet and shouted: ‘Open it!’ When that didn’t happen soon enough, he left again.”
Yet the man in the toilet must have thought that the impatient man was still standing at his door in dire need. “When he came out, he hit me so hard in the face with a glass that I collapsed. When I looked down, all I saw was blood.”
“The victim could have been blind.”
The man with the glass quickly fled, but was captured by several cameras in the city center. Police are now sharing those images in the hope that someone will recognize him. “The victim could have been blind. This perpetrator must be caught.”
It concerns a white man between the ages of 40 and 50. He has a sporty build and is between 1.70 and 1.75 meters tall. His hair was well shaved on the sides. On the night of the assault, he was wearing dark jeans with eye-catching holes and prints, a black sweater with a fluorescent print and a yellow hooded sweater.
