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The actions of the gang, believed to consist of a core of three men, made it Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree. The active participants were known as The Giant (French: Le Géant; a tall man who may have been the leader); the Killer (Le Tueur; the main shooter) and the Old Man (Le Vieux; a middle aged man who drove). The identities ...
Philippe married Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, daughter of a Walloon count of a Belgian noble family and female line descendant of Polish noble families such as the princes Sapieha and counts Komorowski, on 4 December 1999 in Brussels, in a civil ceremony at the Brussels Town Hall and a religious ceremony at the Cathedral of Saint Michel and Saint ...
Geneviève Lhermitte (16 November 1966 – 28 February 2023) was a Belgian woman who killed all five of her children on 28 February 2007. She killed each of her children by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife stolen from a local grocery store while her husband was visiting family in Morocco.
Michel Paul Fourniret (4 April 1942 – 10 May 2021) [2] was a French serial killer who confessed to killing 12 people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003. After he was arrested in June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in Ciney, [3] Fourniret confessed in 2004 to killing nine people, eight females and one male, [4] having been informed on by his then-wife, [5 ...
Marc Dutroux was born in Ixelles, Brussels, on 6 November 1956 [5] to Victor Dutroux and Jeanine Lauwens. He is the eldest of five children. [6] Dutroux spent part of his early childhood in Burundi, then part of the Belgian Congo, where his father worked as a teacher.
Stefan Stambolov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria: Died in Sofia after being stabbed. 11 March 1907: Dimitar Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Killed in Sofia by an anarchist. 14 June 1923: Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Killed in his home town of Slavovitsa during the 9 June coup d'état: 16 April 1925
Alexander De Croo (Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər də ˈkroː]; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025. Previously from 2012 to 2020, De Croo serve as deputy prime minister governments of Elio Di Rupo , Charles Michel , and Sophie Wilmès .
The 2023 Brussels shooting was an Islamist terrorist attack carried out at about 19:15 (CEST) on 16 October when Abdesalem Lassoued, a 45-year-old Tunisian living illegally in Brussels, Belgium, opened fire on Swedish football supporters at the intersection of two boulevards just off the Square Sainctelette, leaving two dead and one injured.