The lifeless body found Sunday followingnoon on the slopes of Mount Kemmel, in the municipality of Heuvelland, was identified as that of the experienced hunter and former lawyer Patrick Geelhand de Merxem (63), according toThe last news.
The body lay next to that of a dead deer and a hunting weapon and showed a gunshot wound. The circumstances of his death are under investigation.
Patrick Geelhand de Merxem was a lawyer from 1986 to 2020 and also former President of the Ypres Bar. He was also known as an avid hunter. He is notably the founder of the wildlife management unit “In Flanders Fields”.
