According to Het Laatste Nieuws, a patient with a psychiatric problem threatened to stab paramedics with a knife over the telephone. The emergency services rushed to Weststraat around 2:45 p.m. to cordon off the neighborhood.
The special units of the Tares team from the Vlas police zone arrived on the scene. The gas line in the house was also turned off. Local residents were not evacuated, but the street was closed for about 5 hours. The man surrendered just after 7 p.m.