Update 2020/06/17
 
In the most mysterious serial murder case in Belgian criminal history there is movement again after 38 years.  The deeds of the "Gang of the Brabant" are sufficiently described in the lower section of this article. 

In this context, the Belgian police ask:
Who is this man?
 
Can anyone give any information about this man?
 
(Perhaps also in connection with paramilitary groups in South Africa (Transvaal) or the Congo (Katanga) in the 1980s?)
 
This person holds in the photo a double-action rifle (pump/semi-auto) of the Italian brand Franchi type Spas 12 - calibre 12. 

Released by the order of the Magistrate Mrs Michel in Charleroi

If you recognize this man, please contact the investigators on the free phone 0800/30 300 or from abroad 00 32 2 554.44.88 

 

Update:

update 12/17/2018

Who recognizes these number plates or vehicles?

 

Rijkswacht Belgie

Who remembers these objects, or knows someone who has owned them?

Checks from the Delhaize van Aalst, found in "large de Fauquez". Rijkswacht Belgie

 

Fast, brutal force, 28 dead and pink ballets 

In the first half of the 1980s, the province of Brabant was plagued by a group of robbers.

During raids, they took little money, but they left 28 dead and, according to estimates at the time, more than 20 injured.

 

The group's militarily targeted action was already frightening back then, in 1985, after the last robbery of a Delhaize supermarket in Aalst. During the attack, the phantoms captured a few thousand Belgian francs, still valid at the time, but left eight dead and nine injured.

Afterwards, the series ended abruptly.

The investigators already suspected the perpetrators in their ranks, many leads led nowhere and to the Belgian Gladio group, which was years later exposed.

Also, into a kind of nationally and internationally working child molester ring, which is the Pink Ballet. The main person mentioned in connection with this Pink Ballet, a particular Brussels doctor, André Pinon, had left for Portugal at the beginning of the millennium. During his divorce proceedings, he was repeatedly placed in the context of child sex and drug parties that took place in the highest circles of Belgian society.

The entanglement of the Brabant gang with Belgian right-wing radicals was also evident, in the connection between Paul Latinus, the head of the Westland New Post and a former South African policeman of Belgian origin, Jean-Philippe van Engeland. The latter had left for Paraguay to join Stroessner in 1982.

 

Le geant or the invisible giant

Somewhat strange business partners

 

At the Rand Show in April 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa, strange things happened. Not only the business downturn, due to international sanctions, which could be avoided by conferencing with the consultant of a company from Seychelles, but also other things.

Nothing was going on at the formerly flourishing trade fair in the South African metropolis. At best, the beer was flowing.

In South Africa's everyday life, one had arrived in the reality of UN sanctions.

 

Dark chocolates - chocolates with filling

 

Two Belgians, who not only ate dark chocolates at the booths but were also otherwise gladly arrested in the mercenary business, offered their services at the fair, along with machines and hydraulics. They lived in Waver in Brabant and preferred to chat at the Castle Lager at the long buffet of the Holiday Inn in Johannesburg's city centre about the gang that was still keeping Belgium on tenterhooks at the time.

 

They knew simply everything about the Brabant gang and were friends with van Engeland, according to their statements. At first, the German businessman thought he had been put on the spinning wheel to sell his hydraulics. It soon became clear that the two Brabanters knew considerably more than the Belgian press.

 

In the evening, in the bar on the 10th floor of the hotel in Johannesburg, they announced that the gangsters who had judged harmless passers-by and supermarket visitors were from the ranks of the police. They had allegedly learned this from their friend, van Engeland, who is sympathetic to the now-disbanded Westland New Post, far to the right. Latinus had died in April 1984. That's where the Brabant gang's trail led in later investigations.

 

In August 1987 the three negotiating partners wanted to meet again, this time in Waver near Brussels in Belgium. It was about hydraulic systems for weirs.

At the first meeting this worked out excellently, and the potential profit for the small company in Germany made him travel to the next meeting after the barbecue with the friendly Belgians and their friends.

Back to Waver. It was in the summer of 1987.

But, to make matters worse, the house was now occupied by a couple who had returned home from the Congo and couldn't make sense of what they had said. But the German businessman was unlucky; his Belgian business partners seemed to have vanished into thin air.

The telephone number he called was one of the Belgian couples from Waver. They had already informed the police and filed a report for burglary.

He had to leave again without having achieved anything. He never heard from the ominous business partners again and wondered how the business partners might have known about the real culprits years ago.

The German businessman, who made his misfortune known at every party, only connected the episode with the events of the time years later.

 

New findings

 

Two years ago, in 2015, one of the people involved in the deathbed at the time, "Le Geant", is said to have told on the deathbed about his murders and confessed man was the long-sought giant. Piquantly, the giant was a former elite police officer.

Were there any connections between Jean Michel Nihoul and the Brabant gang?

Did the Pink Ballet exist and were the raids staged by the Gang of Brabant just the prelude to a whole series of acts that followed?

 

Fifty-two girls disappeared without a trace during this period, without the Belgian authorities being able to clarify their fate in any lasting way.

Were Dutroux and his accomplices, including his ex-wife, the primary school teacher M. Martin, really just the procurers for a whole network of paedophiles? In the Dutroux case, numerous witnesses were murdered, and Jean Michel Nihoul often spoke vaguely about his role in the Dutroux case.

He was also responsible for drugs, which would again refer to the Pink Ballet.

The Special Police Unit, in which the late Giant worked, is attributed to Gladio, NATO's underground network during the Cold War.

Did officials from the Belgian judicial system cover the so-called Pink Ballet, as well as the Special Police Unit?

It would prove that the Belgian public was right to march 300,000 through Brussels city centre when there was a near-rebellion in Belgium. Back when the gruesome murders were uncovered after the deliberate abduction of the girls.

Are gang members of the Brabant gangsters behind the deaths of the witnesses in the Dutroux trial?

If you hear the opinion, not the rumours, that the ordinary citizens in Nivelles are behind the hand more than 30 years after the deeds, it must be so. Twenty-eight dead people speak their language, who stood in the environment of Dutroux and the gang of Brabant.

That is likely.

It is also supported by the fact that the former investigator Eddy Vos, who was the lion's share of the investigation into the Brabant gang, asked to be transferred at his request and was subsequently threatened most severely.

Under Belgian law, the deeds are now time-barred unless the remaining members of the Brabant robbers can be shown to have been involved in the murder of witnesses in the Dutroux case. The only connection to these secret Pink Ballets and a trace that the Brabant robbers allegedly shot participants of these "events" while raiding the markets.

Only this fact would prove that Brabant's gang did not just break up, but was active until very recently.

A creepy find from the saddle

 

The story of the unknown woman, who was found in the county of Kent in the United Kingdom, in the autumn (23 October 1979) of 1979, by a horsewoman passing by chance, is quickly told. The dead woman went down in British criminal history as the Bedgebury Forest Woman.

The woman was murdered in an unprecedented act and then badly beaten up. The body had been hidden under branches. As the British police had no clues as to the identity of the dead, posters were put up throughout the Kingdom and the rest of Europe. There seems to have been no significant indication at that time.

 

Did the woman come from Eastern Europe?

She was trapped in abject poverty and had probably taken the gateway to England in the port of Dover. The starting point was probably the motorway, which was very popular with hitchhikers at that time. But even this trail led nowhere. There were suspicions that the woman might have come from the north of England, this lead was also discarded.

Her molars were in an extremely bad condition and she had no visible

dental treatment. At the time of her death, she was between 30 and 35 years old.

Years later, in 1984, the case was even covered by the BBC in the then very popular partner format of the German investigative program XY ungelöst, Crime Watch.

The only usable lead for the investigators around the then team of TV icon Susan Cook was a dress that had probably been sewn by herself.

An ovarian pregnancy of the dead was the subject in the program. She had given birth to a child before. Where the child was, no one could say.

Only many years later did it become public that the show was quite successful, that someone had contacted us who could at least give a hint about the unknown dead woman. Apparently, the dress had been given to a Second-Hand market by a woman years before. The murder squad was unable to pursue any further trail because too much time had also passed. There was simply nothing solid to indicate the identity of the dead. In 1999, the case was again handled by Crime Watch.

At the beginning of the Millennium, a former truck driver, who also admitted to having picked up the dead woman hitchhiking, was acquitted in the court of having committed the crime.

To this day the case remains unsolved and is one of the most mysterious murders in the British Kingdom.

If anyone knows anything about the woman, they should contact

 Kent Police Headquarters, Sutton Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9BZ+441622 690690.  

Horrible find almost 31 years ago

 

On Tuesday, June 21 1988, workers in the forest close to Rosbach, near the BAB 5 motorway in area of the Friedberg junction in the direction of Frankfurt / Main, found in a drainage ditch a skeletonised corpse, apparently the body had been deposited only weeks earlier.

Location: in the municipal forest of Rosbach on the BAB 5 in the area of the AS Friedberg in direction Frankfurt Police Hesse

 

These days before the Olympics in Seoul were quiet, a clue to the time is the goal of the month by Marco van Basten of the Dutch national team.

In April May 1988 Otto Rehhagel celebrated his first and Werder Bremen's second German Championship.

In May 1988, the ICE V set a new world record of 406.9 km/h on the new line between Würzburg and Mottgers (Hesse). Klaus Töpfer, Federal Minister for the Environment, took a bath in the Rhine these days, everyone remembers these events.

The body was probably dumped in the woods near the A5 motorway during these weeks. Who can provide relevant information in this respect?

The situation in which the body was found undoubtedly indicated a homicide, explains the joint report of the criminal investigation department and the public prosecutor's office in Gießen- even though the type of death could not be determined due to the state of decomposition during the autopsy.

Not even the sex was explicit. It was assumed, as the contribution to the case of Rudi Cerne in xy unsolved showed, that the unknown was a man.

Apart from an ear stud, there were no personal papers or objects that could have led to the identification of the body so that no perpetrator could be identified. The case was closed.

 

earring_176x176, police headquarters Mittelhessen

It was not until 2017 that the Cold Case was resumed, with surprising twists and turns.

First, it was determined that the corpse was a woman who came from Europe, a later Isotope analysis revealed that she must have been born in the border area, probably in a mountainous region between Poland and Ukraine, from 1953 to 1963. In Adolescent, she came to the southern Alpine region, between Switzerland and/or northern Italy.

 

Surprisingly, until shortly before her sudden death, she lived in India or Southeast Asia, there near the sea. This issue is indicated by the food residues detected by isotope analysis. Only shortly before her death, she returned to Germany. After that, another Face reconstruction by an expert from the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida in Saxony was performed.

In this context, it is pointless to speculate, as happened on social networks, whether the dead woman had perhaps lived with the Bhagwan sect of the Osho in Poona, India before she came back to Germany. Maybe she travelled in Europe as a tourist and was only by chance in Frankfurt when she met her murderer. Although the distance to the sea and the time of the former sect camp are the same, the ear stud also reminds of the Baghwan sect.

However, one should not commit oneself to India. Speculation does not help, only facts.

More interesting is the consideration of whether a classmate from Italy or the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland can remember the unknown victim.

(Therefore, this article is also available in Italian and even in Russian, button at the bottom of the page with the respective country flags)

This results in the following personal profile for the criminal investigation department and public prosecutor's office in Giessen: The dead woman was slender, aged 25 - 35 years, born between 1953 and 1963 had medium brown curly hair and was last wearing a gold-coloured ear stud (see picture) about 1.65 m tall shoe size: 34-35

17 dental fillings (mainly silver amalgam) 04-Zaehne-800, Police headquarters Mittelhessen

Pronounced pre-bite blood group A.

She had grown-up in mountainous regions in south-eastern Poland or border areas of Ukraine during puberty.

If necessary, change of location to southern Alpine regions, e.g. Switzerland or northern Italy Lived for a more extended period in India or other maritime South Asian regions.

The victim returned to Central Europe / Germany in mid-1988

She was not a drug user.

The police and prosecutors are now asking:

Who knows the person described and can provide information about their identity?

Please inform the police in Friedberg,

administrative department - police headquarters Mittelhessen

Officer in charge Friedberg Criminal Investigation Department, K 10

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Phone (06031) 601 - 0

Source for the joint press release

Thomas Hauburger, press spokesman public prosecutor's office Gießen

Operation Bute

One of the most mysterious missing person cases after the war in the Federal Republic of Germany is the disappearance of 2-year-old Katrice Lee, who disappeared with her parents in an English supermarket on 28 November 1981,

"NAAFI Shopping Center", went to Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus and vanished without a trace in the checkout area.

The girl, who had a severe visual defect in her left eye, had already undergone surgery and might have been noticed. What happened can only be guessed. It must have been fractions of a second that caused the girl to disappear. Katrice Lee was never seen again.

What initially looked like an accident- has turned out to be one of the most mysterious missing person cases in Germany over the decades. After Katrice they even dug in the river Alme. Nothing. Eyewitnesses from 1981 saw a man carrying a little girl to a green limousine at the time of Katrice's disappearance.

The girl's parents are firmly convinced that the now 40-year-old is still alive, under a different name.

 

 Unknown offender sketch - Royal Military Police HIA Bulford

 

Whether the crime was connected to an incident two years earlier, in 1979, in front of a fast-food restaurant attached to a restaurant on the former school grounds of Eringerfeld Castle is still not clear. At that time, the local Steinhauser Strasse was observed for days from two vehicles in which British people were sitting and people, mainly young schoolgirls, were photographed. Before the police could intervene, the unidentified persons had disappeared. During this time, they had changed places more often and had retreated to the parking lot of an adjacent wooded area.

Castle Eringerfeld was 30 km away from Paderborn.

During this period the IRA was particularly active. Sources say that Katrice was taken hostage for the IRA because her father served with the British, "British Forces Germany".

In this context, there were several attacks in the Federal Republic of Germany, including in Münster, Mönchengladbach, Unna, Hanover, Osnabrück, Bielefeld and Dortmund. All the acts have taken place since the early 1980s.

 

Kidnappings were a speciality of the IRA, which at the time was waging unrestricted war against the British. There were countless examples, such as the case of the mother of ten, Jean McConville, who was abducted in 1972 and only became known decades later. Or the case of Thomas Niedermayer, the Grundig representative in Belfast and then German honorary consul, who was abducted in 1973 and only found in 1980 in a wild dump near Belfast.

In connection with the kidnapping of Katrice Lee, the Royal Military Police - HIA Bulford telephone 0800 / 723 5229 requests relevant information.