"Fine party", "orgy", "orgy lockdown" and even "gang bang".
The Belgian press is having a great time since learning that the police intervened Friday evening in a party prohibited because of the confinement, and had discovered men, 25, gathered in the simplest device for practices little compatible with physical distancing rules and in violation of the curfew.
Belgium is currently the most fatally affected country, relative to its population.
"Twenty people were fined for non-compliance with health measures following an evening organized on Friday evening, on the first floor of a building in downtown Brussels," said Sarah Durant, spokesperson on Tuesday. of the Brussels public prosecutor's office.
The facts took place on the first floor of a gay bar, Le Détour, located a few steps from the Grand-Place, and the central police station of the Belgian and European capital.
Exasperated neighbors reportedly notified the police.
A man tried to escape through a gutter
At least two diplomats attended the party, we just know their initials and years of birth.
DO (1977) and PB (1987) immediately invoked their diplomatic immunity, which obliged the police officers to approach the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the night.
A man, who tried to escape through a gutter, confessed to being a Hungarian MEP.
"The man's hands were bloody, it is possible that he was injured during his flight", noted the Brussels public prosecutor's office identifying the culprit with his initials, "SJ", born in 1961.
Member of Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, József Szájer, 59, admitted on Tuesday that his surprise resignation from the European Parliament on Sunday was linked to his participation in the underground party.
In addition to the failure to comply with the measures related to the pandemic, Szájer is also accused of a violation of the laws on narcotics.
If he assured in a statement that he "did not consume drugs", an ecstasy pill was found by the police in his backpack.
"A strictly personal faux pas"
Tuesday, while the Flemish daily Het Laatste Nieuws evoked his presence in this evening which gave rise to about twenty arrests on Friday evening, he himself provided details.
“I deeply regret this violation of the anti-Covid restrictions, it was irresponsible on my part.
I am ready to pay the fine provided for in this case ”, set at € 250.
"I apologize to my family, my colleagues and my constituents," he added, speaking of "a strictly personal misstep", without giving further details.
"I ask everyone not to extend it to my native country or to my political community," he wrote in his statement, as Hungary increases the attacks on the rights of the LGBT community.
Engaged for more than 30 years, Szájer was vice-president of the Hungarian Parliament, head of the Fidesz delegation to the European Parliament, he also helped to draft the constitution of his country.
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Twenty fines have been issued and the investigation is continuing.
If criminal proceedings were initiated, the diplomatic and parliamentary immunity of József Szájer and the two diplomats would first have to be lifted.
Participants must have had Covid-19
David, 29, the doctoral student who regularly organizes naughty parties at home, assured Het Laatste Nieuws that he had taken precautions and that the evening was held "responsibly".
“I invited ten friends and they were allowed to bring their own on one condition: all guests must have already had the coronavirus and must not have any symptoms.
I trusted: I knew my friends wouldn't lie about it.
To be honest, I don't see what the problem is.
There were also two nurses present, they didn't think it was dangerous either, ”he said, without explaining the role nurses played.
As for the police raid, he still says “all of a sudden, lots of police were in my living room.
ID card!
Right now!
But we weren't even wearing underpants.
How then could we show our identity card?
A real joke, if the coronavirus did not do such damage in Belgium, and if an ultra-conservative MEP married to a woman had not had to betray his private life ...
