Naked MEP leaps from window as Belgian police raid orgy for breaking coronavirus rules

Brussels police patrol the streets to enforce the coronavirus curfew

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A naked MEP tried to escape through a window after police broke up a 25-strong sex party in Brussels’ city centre for breaking coronavirus rules. 

The unnamed MEP reportedly injured himself jumping out of the first floor of a flat above a bar, where the orgy was being held.

He was promptly arrested by police but brandished his European Parliament badge and claimed immunity. EU rules don’t confer immunity when a MEP is caught in the act of committing an offence. 

Belgian media reported police sources as claiming there were also a number of EU diplomats at the sex party, which was on Friday night and just a few metres from a city centre police station and the city’s iconic Grand Place. 

“We interrupted a gang bang!” one source told local media and confirmed the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mayor of Brussels were called. 

Police fined the 25 people, who were mostly men, at the orgy £225 pounds each before releasing them. They broke rules limiting gatherings of people to four.

Belgium only allows single people two “cuddle contacts” under its coronavirus rules and insists on masks being worn when social distancing is impossible. 

Brussels is under strict lockdown, including a 10pm curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol after 8pm. Drink and drugs were found, it was reported but not confirmed. 

“I can confirm that about twenty people were fined for failure to comply with health measures following an evening party organised on Friday evening on the first floor of a building in the centre of Brussels," the Brussels’ prosecutors office said. 

The news sparked feverish speculation in Brussels, the home of the major EU institutions, as to the MEP’s identity. At time of publication, that had still not been confirmed. 

A European Parliament source said: “There is nothing wrong to participate on a sex party of any kind. However, such kind of meetings with many people are illegal under the coronavirus laws. 

“The fact of being covered by parliamentary immunity does not exempt to obey the law.”

“Parliament doesn’t investigate private life of people. Again, if there was misconduct it is up to the relevant authorities to act,” the European Parliament’s chief spokesman said as he ruled out an inquiry.