A man bit an officer in the arm on Tuesday evening along the A4 near Halsteren. There he was sleeping in his back seat with his car, half on the verge and half on the hard shoulder. When the officers woke him up, things went wrong.
Just before ten o’clock, surveillance officers saw the car with the Czech registration plate with the lights off along the A4. Since the car was in a dangerous place, they decided to take a look. There they saw the man lying in the back seat.
Knife taken away
At first they tried to wake him up by shouting and knocking. When he didn’t respond, they opened the door. The man woke up and began to yell at the officers in an unknown language. They saw that he was also carrying a knife and took the weapon. The man was not pleased. A struggle ensued, in which one of the officers was bitten in the arm.
The man was eventually taken to the station. He is still in custody for questioning. It is not yet clear who he is. A saliva test showed that the man had not used drugs. The bitten cop was treated by the doctor.