Huge admiration. Mayor Joyce Vermue has that for the residents of Rijsbergen. They offered assistance on Thursday evening in the sensational manhunt for three suspects in a robbery. On Friday afternoon, local residents gather to talk with the mayor.
Vermue said that on Friday morning in the NOS Radio 1 Journaal. The meeting for residents is between half past three and four o’clock at the Koutershof in Rijsbergen.
Manhunt and shots fired
After a robbery at a gun store in Belgium, the police gave chase to the car with the perpetrators. In Rijsbergen, the robbers left their car behind.
One of the 19-year-old men was immediately arrested. The two others fled on foot, even after the police had fired warning shots. They were later arrested. The police had already closed off the village before that.
Residents were asked to watch out for the robbers. After that call, reports came in from all over the village, so that the suspects could eventually be arrested, says Vermue.
Zundert
Not only in Rijsbergen, also in Zundert they experienced an evening full of Wild West scenes on Thursday. For example, the Achtmaalseweg in the village was full of bullets that had been dumped by the men for hours. Resident Henk was just in the area at the time.
“I was just closing the gate when a cyclist shouted: ‘That car threw bullets all over the street!’”, says Henk, who does not want his last name to be published, on the phone. “That man was flabbergasted.”