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A 78-year-old Belgian man was arrested connected suspicion of murdering his companion 30 years agone aft excavation activity turned up quality remains successful a garden, prosecutors said. The suspect, named only arsenic Hans D., was arrested this week, charged, and fitted pinch an physics search bracelet.
He was group to look Friday successful tribunal successful nan Belgian metropolis of Ghent for a determination connected nan play and conditions of his detention.
The acold lawsuit was reopened erstwhile nan remains were discovered past Saturday, arsenic nan proprietor of a location successful Sint-Martens-Latem, a colony conscionable southwest of Ghent, had workers excavation up his garden.
Police quickly deduced from clues recovered that nan assemblage could beryllium that of a woman, a neighbour who had vanished successful 1994 astatine property 48 and who had been nan companion of nan suspect.
Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported that Hans D. had confessed to burying her but had not admitted to sidesplitting her.
The man's lawyer, Ashley Bicx, told different newspaper, Het Nieuwsblad, that his customer was "fully cooperating" pinch nan investigation.
The female — identified by nan Brussels Times arsenic Annie De Poortere — vanished connected November 12, 1994. Five years later, aft nan lawsuit went cold, she was declared "absent" by a tribunal successful Ghent, nan outlet reported.
Hans D., a tradesman successful nan village, was not nether suspicion astatine nan time.
He had told a tv newsman successful an question and reply successful 1999 that his companion had abruptly gone missing 1 evening while he was retired shopping astatine a supermarket and past disconnected watching a shot game, De Standaard reported.
Last year, Interpol launched a web page where constabulary stock antecedently confidential accusation astir unsolved cases successful Belgium, Germany and nan Netherlands.
Interpol said successful November that astir 2 twelve women recovered dead in caller decades successful those 3 countries person been identified.
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