Party evening for young farmers in Hainaut ends in a settlement between motorcycle gangs: 1 dead | Interior

LOOK. Party evening for young farmers turned into bloodbath: one man attacked with a hammer, second person died after being hit

The emergency services arrived on Friday night around 1.30 am on the chemin de St-Druon in Péronnes. There was a party going on in a tent, organized by a professional organization for young farmers. In the course of the evening a gang of motorcyclists arrived. They immediately attacked a man outside the tent. They would also have used a hammer. After beating up the victim, the perpetrators fled.

According to the Crown Prosecutor Vincent Macq, a person was hit by a car. The emergency services were on the scene around 1:30 a.m., but the man who had been hit did not survive. “The facts are very serious. The victim has died,” the prosecutor confirmed to RTL. The man who was attacked with a hammer is seriously injured.

According to the initial findings, it concerns a settlement between the Hells Angels and the Bandidos. An autopsy will be performed on the victim’s body later in the day. A woman was also injured in the encounter.

The drama took place in the middle of the marquee, with quite a few people around watching the “horror scene” happen. About a thousand people were evacuated. “After more than an hour we were able to leave but under guard, one by one with police officers in a row. They were armed to the teeth,” a witness explains to the newspaper ‘La Dernière Heure’.

An investigating judge and a team from the lab of the federal judicial police of Tournai-Bergen went to the scene. More information from the public prosecutor’s office will follow later Saturday.