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It came during a banned anti-Islam rally in the troubled district of Brussels
As the driver continued, passenger appeared to lean out and take a photo
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Shocking footage has emerged of a Muslim woman being mown down by a car in a hit-and-run during an anti-Islam rally in the Brussels district of Molenbeek.
Video
footage of the incident shows the car, which had ploughed through a
police road block, driving head-on into the woman as she crossed the
road.
The
woman was thrown off the car's bonnet and skidded along the road, while
the driver continued moving forward and appeared to run over her legs.
The passenger even appears to lean out of the window to take a photo after breaking through the police barricade.
Video
footage of the incident shows the car, which had ploughed through a
police road block, driving head-on into the woman as she crossed the
road
The woman
was thrown off the car's bonnet and skidded along the road, while the
driver continued moving forward and appeared to run over her legs
Although seriously injured, the woman appeared to be conscious to receive treatment at the scene of the crash.
Police haven't yet confirmed the woman's current condition, or the motivation behind the crash.
It came as tensions escalated in the Belgian capital, with police out in force to ward off trouble after local authorities banned the scheduled anti-Islam rally and any counter-protests.
Several
hundred people attempted to gather in defiance of the ban in the
troubled neighbourhood of Molenbeek, which has become known as the
'jihadi capital of Europe' after it emerged that a number of the
Brussels and Paris terror attackers had connections with the district.
Meanwhile
smaller far-left groups were dispersed from a central Brussels square
that has become a memorial to the victims of the airport and metro
attacks of March 22.
Police
said they briefly detained over 100 people but only two were kept in
custody, as calm returned to the district this evening.
Authorities
were determined to prevent a repeat of last weekend, when riot police
fired water cannon to disperse far-right football hooligans who
disrupted mourners at the makeshift shrine to the attack victims.
Although seriously injured, the woman appeared to be conscious to receive treatment at the scene of the crash
Police haven't yet confirmed the woman's current condition, or the motivation behind the crash in Brussels
Police surround the white car, which
had previously ploughed through a police barricade as far-right
activists attempted to gather in the troubled district of Molenbeek for
an anti-Islam protest
The
sole surviving Paris suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Molenbeek
on March 18, after four months on the run as Europe's most wanted man.
He denies having any prior knowledge of the Brussels attacks.
It
comes as authorities announced that Brussels' Zaventem airport will
partially reopen on Sunday, just 12 days after it was hit by twin ISIS
suicide blasts.
The
first three 'symbolic flights' will take off for Faro, Turin and Athens
from Sunday afternoon, Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Feist
told reporters, and travellers will have to undergo strict new security
controls before check-in.
'These flights are the first hopeful sign from an airport that is standing up straight after a cowardly attack,' Mr Feist said.
Passengers
will have to make use of a temporary check-in facility as the airport's
departure hall was wrecked in the March 22 blasts that also struck a
metro station in Brussels, killing 32 people.
The passenger even appears to lean out of the window to take a photo after breaking through the police barricade
It came as
tensions escalated in the Belgian capital, with police out in force to
ward off trouble after local authorities banned the scheduled anti-Islam
rally and any counter-protests
Belgian police point their guns at a
car driving towards a police road block, just moments before it hit and
injured a woman on the street in the Brussels district of Molenbeek
The
attacks came just four days after Belgium arrested the prime suspect in
last November's Paris terror assaults and close links have emerged
between the attack cells.
European
authorities, under pressure to crack down on a tangled web of
cross-border jihadist cells, have carried out a number of raids and
arrests since then, several of them linked to a foiled plot to attack
France.
In
the latest development, Belgian prosecutors today charged a third
suspect with 'participation in the activities of a terrorist group' over
the France plot.
The man was named only as 35-year-old Y.A., who was arrested in the centre of Brussels on Friday.
The
main plot suspect is French national Reda Kriket, who was arrested in
France last week after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives
at his home near Paris.
Soldiers patrol during tensions between police and residents, in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, Belgium
Belgium policemen arrest protestors at the Bourse Memorial for victims of the Brussels terrorist attack
A far right-wing demonstration was cancelled by Brussels Mayor before taking place in Molenbeek
The sole surviving Paris suspect,
Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Molenbeek on March 18, after four months
on the run as Europe's most wanted man. Pictured, Belgium policemen
arrest protestors at the Bourse Memorial for victims of the terrorist
attack
Mounted Belgian police take position near colleagues in riot gear in the Brussels district of Molenbeek
In the latest development, Belgian
prosecutors today charged a third suspect with 'participation in the
activities of a terrorist group' over the France plot. Pictured, a
masked youth taunts Belgian police
It comes as authorities announced that
Brussels' Zaventem airport will partially reopen on Sunday, just 12
days after it was hit by twin ISIS suicide blasts
Soldiers patrol during tensions between police and residents, in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek
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