2023-08-08 09:11:00
Lawyer Delhuvenne has gotten a little old since the last meeting. It is difficult to recognize the litigant of the 1980s. At 71, the man carries the weight of age on his shoulders.
However, this is not why the courts took a stunning decision once morest him: by court order, Me Delhuvenne, who was Patrick Haemers’ lawyer, was placed under guardianship.
In 2018, Delhuvenne confided in the DH on the case of the Killers of Brabant. The secrets related to September 30, 1982, the day the perpetrators robbed the Dekaise armory in Wavre, stole 18 weapons, some of which would be used later, and killed in cold blood, finishing him for free with a bullet in the head. , police officer Claude Haulotte.
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If the story he told us on December 14, 2018 is now well known, new elements appearing in the press make the former lawyer jump: on May 6, 2023, the DH published the testimony of a certain Joost V., a motorist who claims to have crossed in Bierghes, at a specific place, the evening of the killing at Delhaize in Aalst, a VW Golf which might be that of the killers. Etienne Delhuvenne, starting from the address in Bierghes, searched the archives, and what he found allows, he says, to make links between all this.
To understand, a step back is necessary. A return to this Thursday, September 30, 1982 marked, around 10:30 a.m., by the attack in Wavre on the Daniel Dekaise armory.
The beginning
The story has not changed a comma. In 1982, Delhuvenne was 30 years old. His office is located at avenue du Val d’Or, 6, in Woluwe-St-Pierre.
Thursday September 30. In the followingnoon, at 2 p.m., he was expecting his first client, Uccle businessman Jean-Luc Piavaux. Piavaux did not arrive until around 2:45 p.m., explaining his delay by the fact that during the lunch hour, a certain Bruno Vandeuren had come to the office to meet his sister, Piavaux’s secretary. Announcing that there had been a robbery in the morning in Wavre, Vandeuren asked Piavaux to take him to rue du Beau-Site in Ixelles, to a complex of boxes and garage parking lots, in order to pick up some belongings and a vehicle there. .
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When the consultation was over, Piavaux having left the office, Me Delhuvenne had to explain to the next client the delay of three-quarters of an hour. According to Delhuvenne, this client, coincidentally, was Francis Dossogne, private detective and at the time a well-known figure on the far right. Dossogne came to file a report in an adultery case. When he left the cabinet, Francis Dossogne would have gone directly to the PJ in Brussels where he would have given the tip to a commissioner – Y.
“So that at 4 p.m., summarizes Delhuvenne, “we knew at the PJ where one of the perpetrators of the attack on Wavre was: Bruno Vandeuren, born on 20/7/62, nicknamed “Le Gitan””
Arrest
The crackdown took place around 10 p.m. Two individuals were arrested on rue du Beau-Site, including a certain TQL, known according to Delhuvenne as a State Security informant.
Vandeuren, who escaped on a motorbike, nevertheless swayed by TQL, was caught the next day at the home of his half-sister, Jean-Luc Piavaux’s secretary, mentioned above.
At the request of the sister and via Piavaux, Me Delhuvenne became the lawyer for Bruno Vandeuren whom he met in prison. In the visiting room where Vandeuren confided.
The robber’s ex-lawyer Patrick Haemers reveals: “Bruno Vandeuren, the gypsy, knew everything regarding the Brabant Killers” ©DR
Confessions
Bruno Vandeuren had just turned 20 at the time. According to Delhuvenne, he acknowledged his participation “as a driver” in the attack on the Dekaise armory for which he had carried out the scouting the previous week. We had chosen Thursday, he explained, because it was market day. The crowd would delay the rescue.
His role was “to wait at the wheel for the return of the accomplices”. (Big inconsistency here: at other than Delhuvenne, Vandeuren will boast of having hit Daniel Dekaise, which implies that he was in the armory, therefore not in the vehicle). He said that he had stored the stolen weapons in Diegem at Dekaise’s, in the room he occupied above an establishment, the ‘De Pomp’ café, since he had escaped a fortnight earlier, on September 14 , from the Saint-Hubert prison centre.
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It may be noted that TQL mentioned by Vandeuren was of Vietnamese origin, or M Dekaise described one of the authors as having dark skin. Then, Vandeuren indicated that he had carried out the scouting with a French mobster, but the escape vehicle, a VW Santana, bore a French registration. And the first violent act attributed to the killers had taken place in Maubeuge six weeks earlier. When he co-directed the investigation, Commissioner Vos did not rule out a French lead.
P., the killer still alive
Still according to what Delhuvenne maintains that Vandeuren entrusted to him in the parlor in 82, the leader of the killers was a certain P. It was he, P., who had finished off the policeman Haulotte. Vandeuren called him “the madman”.
P., a Brussels resident, is still alive. This is the track, for Delhuvenne, that must be taken up and digged.
The lawyer affirms that being held by the duty of reserve, he might not say everything. He thus had to take refuge behind professional secrecy in 1993 when Judge Hainaut wanted to hear him. Summoned to the BSR in Brussels on October 29, 1982 when the name of Vandeuren was already circulating, he would, on the other hand, have thrown out the name of the French mobster his client had spoken to him regarding: someone from the Toumaniantz gang (Heinrich Toumaniantz, famous mobster from the 1970, mysteriously “disappeared” in 1979, probable victim of a settling of accounts and buried in the forest near Heverlee, although no light has ever been shed on this either).
myth?
Now that we seem to have turned the page on the Beijer track in the Killings affair, Etienne Delhuvenne reiterates his certainty that Bruno Vandeuren “had a role”, “participated in one of them” and “knew everything on the early Killers”.
Some held Vandeuren for a mythomaniac. Was he and if he was, how far was he.
Jean Bultot, the prison director who will also be talked regarding, also said that he had obtained confidences from Vandeuren who, according to him, “gave the impression of feeling a real hatred towards the gunsmith Daniel Dekaise that he called “manure” (sic).”
In his own family, Vandeuren was found to be unusually very nervous at the time.
Forty years later, Delhuvenne makes connections between everything.
We will continue tomorrow with the publication of his testimony.
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