2023-09-27 14:55:20
The prosecutor requested a 30-month prison sentence once morest Christian and Sylvia Van Eyken for destruction of evidence on Wednesday before the Brussels Criminal Court. The alleged acts took place on October 30, 2017, while the couple was consulting, at the court registry, the murder file in which they were accused. A hard drive, containing video surveillance images relating to the night of the crime, was burned.
The two defendants must answer for computer sabotage and destruction of public property as well as attempted arson. They are suspected of having burned a hard drive equipped with a “write blocker”, a system preventing any modification of data, in a room at the Brussels criminal court registry.
This disc contained video surveillance images showing the two defendants leaving Marc Dellea’s building in Laeken, the night the latter was killed, in 2014. Marc Dellea was the companion of Sylvia Boigelot, who was having an extra-marital relationship with Christian Van Eyken, then a member of the Flemish Parliament. A police officer from the Federal Police’s computer crime unit analyzed the hard drive and concluded that it might only have been damaged by a deliberate act and not by simple overheating. The device might only have been damaged by “intense heat source of more than 1,000°C” like a welding torch, the prosecutor said.
Taking into account the fact that the computer device was destroyed following its use by the Van Eyken couple, on October 30, 2017 in the followingnoon, it is obvious that the spouses are the authors of the sabotage, according to the magistrate. He therefore requested a 30-month prison sentence once morest them.
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