This April 3rd Queen Mathilde of Belgium made a 100-year leap in time. Back on April 1st, 1916, Gabrielle Petit was shot in Schaerbeek, town gates of Brussels. This young Belgian woman of 22, a volunteer with the Red Cross, had been sentenced to death by the German army for spying for the Allies. To mark the centenary of his execution, a ceremony was held Sunday on the Place Saint-Jean in Brussels, where a statue pays tribute since 1923.

Participating in this commemoration, she wore a striped gray coat of the Belgian brand Natan which she last wore in October 11th 2015 also underneather were a gray skirt as her clutch and her shoes, laid a wreath at the foot of the bronze effigy Gabrielle Petit, like the federal government representatives and several patriotic associations. She also attended the musical depicting the last moments of the life of this iconic resistant to the First World War in occupied Belgium, who worked for British intelligence.
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