Medya News has accessed a video that depicts the onset of the recent incidents that occurred in Belgium.
Captured by a Kurdish family inside their vehicle, the footage shows the moment as they were returning home from Newroz celebrations on 24 March. It features a Turkish nationalist obstructing the cars of Kurdish families also returning from the Newroz festivities. When it was this family’s turn, they started recording.
The man, confronting their vehicle—which bore flags in the Kurdish national colours (red, green and yellow)—aggressively halts them and questions the Kurdish family inside about “where they think they are living”.
This interrogation might carry some semblance of rationale in Turkey, given the official policy against Kurdish national symbols there. However, these events transpired in Belgium.
Recognising the provocation, the Kurdish family begins to film the individual, who remains undeterred and encourages them with menacing gestures. He persists with his questioning: “Where do you think you live?”
Next, he moves to dismantle the flags in Kurdish national colours from the other side of the car, all the while not sparing any curses towards the car’s occupants.
He then proceeds to tear away a celebratory fabric tied to the driver’s side door, which isn’t even in Kurdish national colours.
At the back door, however, there is one in Kurdish colours. This identification of the Kurdish family celebrating their national day was enough for the aggressor. He perceives it as an endorsement of a “terrorist organisation” and sees his actions as justified. Unfortunately, this sentiment mirrors that of the Prime Minister of Belgium…
The aggressor doesn’t stop at insults.
Holding the Kurdish national colours flag he ripped from the vehicle, he exclaims:
“Where do you think you are living! What is this? Scoundrels…”
