A man suspected of attacking another with corrosive liquid in a Brussels park was arrested on the same day after Het Nieuwsblad published the information.
The liquid in question was probably ammonia.
Police were called to a brawl on the Avenue de l'Héliport at around 07:00 a.m. on Wednesday. On arriving at the scene, officers found a man suffering from severe eye pain. He explained that someone had sprayed him in the face with a liquid. The substance was probably ammonia, but further investigation would have to confirm this.
A witness to the incident said that the victim had also been punched.
The assailant(s) also fled with his victim's watch.
The man was taken to hospital for treatment, but his life is not in danger.
This is the second incident involving ammonia in the space of a few days. Last Saturday, two men threw a bottle of the substance into a metro train at the Delacroix station. According to the Brussels public prosecutor's office, they were trying to distract passengers so that they could rob them more easily.
