The CCTV footage is chilling.
Travelers wait on the metro platform, Friday evening, Rogier station in Brussels.
And then a man, black bag on his back, quickly approaches a woman and pushes her, two hands forward, towards the tracks as the subway arrives.
The unfortunate falls heavily to the ground.
She owes her life to the emergency braking of the driver, who manages to stop in extremis, just in front of the victim.
The victim, slightly injured, and the metro driver, shocked, were both briefly hospitalized.
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A person pushed onto the tracks of the Brussels metro, the train stops in time
The suspect of this attack which aroused a lot of emotion in the country is a 23-year-old Frenchman, who was quickly arrested the same evening in another station.
He was presented on Saturday to an investigating judge who charged him with "attempted murder", then placed in detention, the Belgian capital's public prosecutor's office announced on Monday.
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Identified by Belgian media as “Benjamin P.”, a 23-year-old Frenchman from the Nancy region (East), the suspect must undergo a psychiatric expertise in the coming days, said the prosecution.
According to a source close to the investigation joined Monday by AFP, he is known to the police services in France for "acts of theft and relating to narcotics", and has no known domicile in Belgium.
He would have no connection with the victim.