A distraught Belgian man fearing deportation threatened to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge early Sunday before being rescued by police, police sources said.
Two cops assigned to patrol the bridge’s pedestrian path found two unattended bags filled with clothes and personal items just after midnight, cops said.
As they were trying to locate the owner of the bags, they saw the distraught man standing on a beam over the Manhattan-bound roadway preparing to jump.
The officers radioed for backup, which quickly arrived and began diverting traffic below the man, police said.
An officer from the 84th Precinct then scaled one of the bridge’s cables and began talking to the man, who explained his plight.
The man told the cop that he had come to the United States from Belgium on a tourist visa and was afraid he would be kicked out of the country, police sources said.
The officer calmed the man’s fears and convinced him to come down from the beam. The two then climbed onto the roof of an ambulance parked directly under the beam.
The unidentified man was taken into custody and sent to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, cops said.
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