‘All of a sudden some small girls came running to us, covered in blood’

THE utter calm with which the blood-spattered young man got on his bicycle and rode away from the Fairytale Nursery in Dendermonde shocked witnesses.

Inside the modern, well-lit, care centre there was devastation.

“The murder of the innocents” was how some of the bewildered residents of this quaint Flemish town described it.