The body of a 36-year-old American has been found in hotel room in Antwerp. The man reportedly attended the Tomorrowland dance festival last weekend with friends and was planning to attend the second weekend of the festival that gets under way on Friday. The Antwerp prosecutor’s office says that as things currently stand there is no indication that the man died a violent death or that any crime has been committed. However, an investigation is under way into the precise cause of the man’s death.
The body of the 36-year-old American was found in the Moxy Antwerp Hotel in the Antwerp City Centre. The man’s death is being treated as suspicious and the prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into the cause of death.
Kato Belmans of the Antwerp prosecutor’s office told VRT News that "The pathologist and a forensics team have visited the scene. Their initial findings are that there is no evidence of criminal intent or violence. An autopsy has been requested in order to ascertain the exact cause of death”.
The Manager of the Moxy Antwerp Hotel says that the dead man was part of a group of friends that visited Tomorrowland last weekend. They were going to stay in the hotel for a few days before returning to the festival site in Boom (Antwerp Province) for the second weekend of the festival that gets under way on Friday.