The Belgian government has reacted with shock on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, to released images of a fatal 2018 police intervention in which a Slovak man died after he was put in detention. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)BRUSSELS A top Belgian police official stepped aside Thursday after a video of a fatal 2018 police intervention in which a Slovak man died after he was put in detention at Charleroi airport was made public. The government itself reacted vigorously after the video from an ongoing investigation emerged Wednesday and Justice Minister Koen Geens said it was unseemly and totally shocking." 2 federal police official, Andr Desenfants, stepped aside after he saw the video, a police official told The Associated Press. The Slovak man, Jozef Chovanec, had been prevented from boarding a plane after he didn't show a ticket and was disruptive.

Police patrol the beach on horseback at the Belgian seaside resort of Blankenberge, Belgium, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. A skirmish took place on the beach on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 which resulted in two coastal communities banning day trippers from the city. By Sunday, a "gang of outsiders was being blamed, and two coastal communities had banned day trippers from the city. We are here in a country called Belgium, where the law is the law, Lippens said. ___Mayo reported from Knokke-Heist, Belgium.