Jette – On Wednesday afternoon, on
line 15 of the electric train that was traveling in the Jette municipality of
Brussels, one man expressed himself in an antisemitic manner, while sending
threatening messages and attacking the only passenger who dared to react.
Michel Luyckx went to the police right after the incident to report what had
transpired, but the police did not make much of his statement and did not
register the complaint. Only on the day after the complaint was registered,
when Michel Luyckx returned to the police stations together with an official
from “the League against Antisemitism “.
A new antisemitic incident has taken
place in our capital. Following the violent attack committed against a person
in his seventies, who said his name in a Jewish accent at the exit from the
offices of the Jewish community in Ixelles a few days ago, a similar case took
place on line 51 of the electric train in the Jette municipality in Brussels.
“The incident occurred last
Wednesday, September 10, towards 4 o’clock in the afternoon,” says Michel
Luyckx, a 54-year-old psychologist who lives in Jette. “I took the electric
train to Uccle, down Alsemberg Street, to return to Jette, and a couple of
stops before Charles Woeste Avenue, a man about 40 years old, of Arab origin, dressed
in jeans and shirt, entered. Suddenly he started shouting angrily that Muslims
are killed in Iraq and the Belgium does nothing about it because it is
controlled by Jews, and that they should all be killed!” Later he added:
“You’ll see, there will be another eruption in Brussels!”
Michel Luyckx went on describing the
events: “I was reading my newspaper and listening to him while looking at him.
But I was surprised by the fact that I was the only
person in the car reacting to these antisemitic expressions and threats… no one
moved! And when he met my gaze, without me uttering a word, he called towards
me: ‘Dirty Jew, you are looking at me… come down with me now and I will
explain to you!’” Finally, after this aggressive man exited the car, Michel
Luyckx followed him secretly, in order to find out where he was heading. But he
lost his traces. “I understood that a type like this one, like NEMOUCHE (the
person who allegedly committed the massacre in the Jewish Museum in Brussels),
would not declare inside the metro that he was going to detonate a bomb, but I
thought that his threatening expressions are worrisome in view of the current
atmosphere. Therefore I followed him. I would have never forgiven myself if
something serious had happened right away, without me doing anything about it.”
The antisemitic expressions offended
also the man who was conversing with us. “I am not a Jew, but this does not
matter at all,” he says. “At that moment I felt myself Jewish!” Michel Luyckx promptly called number 112, of
the emergency services, who directed him, starting Wednesday evening, to the
local police station in Jette. However, he did not succeed in proceeding beyond
the reception hall, since the officer on duty at the station did not think he
had to react to his statement and found it sufficient to register his identity
and address on a piece of paper and to fasten it to his desk… therefore Michel
Luyckx turned to “the League against Antisemitism “.
