Belgian King Philip, visited on Wednesday April 27th  the Maelbeek Metro Station, where a suicide bomber blew himself up on March 22, said the Royal Palace on social networks. The Belgian monarch, aged 56, took the metro from Central Station, accompanied by several bodyguards, according to a half-dozen photos and two short videos posted on the Facebook page of the monarchy. The visit, which took place in the afternoon, had not been announced to the press.

On the short ride, the king who was wearing a black coat, a white shirt and a tie brown tartan plaid, spoke with a passenger before getting off three stops later at the station Maelbeek. Philippe, who was not accompanied by Queen Matilda, then went about the large whiteboard covered with hundreds of messages of tribute to the victims, he has traveled the look before exchanging a few words with a young woman from filing a bouquet of white flowers.

Damaged by the explosion, the station was the last of 69 of the Brussels network to reopen Monday morning. King "wanted to be aware of the situation in the subway since the resumption of normal traffic Monday and honor the victims," ​​said the Palace was quoted by the Belga agency. King Philip and Queen Matilda will host on May 22, two months to the day after the attacks, a memorial ceremony involving particular families of victims and the emergency services.