BRUSSELS (Brussels Morning): The chief prosecutor in charge of investigating corruption in the European Union parliamentary system involving Qatar and Morocco has been detained after allegedly causing trouble in a Brussels café while drunk. The case was dropped after tests found no drugs.
For the past two years, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office has been investigating how Morocco and Qatar attempted to manipulate the European Parliament’s finances and political decisions. In late January, the federal chief prosecutor in charge of the investigation was arrested alone.
Was the Brussels police chief poisoned after the drunken cafe incident?
In late January, a senior inspector of the federal police who was overseeing the investigation was arrested along with two colleagues for allegedly disturbing the peace while drunk in a Brussels café. The chief inspector allegedly assaulted a waiter and became so out of control that another person administered a tranquilizer before he was taken to hospital for blood and urine tests. Initial reports from the hospital said amphetamines were found in his blood, but he later filed a complaint claiming that he had been the victim of an attempted murder.
A federal police investigator and two of his friends were arrested after a drunken brawl in a Brussels café. The investigator allegedly assaulted a waiter and acted uncontrollably, requiring a sedative before being taken to hospital for blood and urine tests. He later claimed that he was charged with attempted murder, claiming that his blood contained amphetamines, as the hospital authorities had stated in an initial report. Prosecutor’s spokeswoman Yasmina Vanoverselde said that our investigation was comprehensive and included a toxicology analysis to assess possible intoxication. After further tests at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Criminology and further tests at the hospital, no drugs were found in the samples of the three people involved. This led to the conclusion that there was no evidence of intoxication, and the case was dropped, as Vanoverselde clearly stated.
