The man has turned himself in to the Dutch police, the Belgian Public Prosecution Service said. He has now been interrogated. The Public Prosecution Service has asked the Netherlands to surrender both suspects.
The two did not know the victim, a 53-year-old Gentenaar of Ugandan descent. They had not yet bumped into each other at the city festival in the center of the Flemish city, before they met on the way back, according to the investigation.
According to justice, the two Dutchmen threw the fifty-year-old into the water of a Ghent city canal early on Sunday morning. He could not swim and drowned.
Escaped
After the incident in Ghent, the suspects fled to the Netherlands with two others in a car. The two other occupants have now been questioned as witnesses, the Public Prosecution Service says.
According to Belgian media, camera images show that the victim ran into a number of Dutch people. They would have been fooling around with each other and pretended to throw each other into the water. Two of the Dutch would eventually have thrown the Gentenaar over the railing of a bridge.
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