Pierre D., the suspect in Kraainem’s double assassination, will remain in prison for at least another month. So decided on Tuesday the chamber of the council of Brussels. His lawyer had asked for his release because he felt there was no serious indication of his client’s guilt, but the court did not respond. In the meantime, the vehicle of one of the victims was found in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, reports the Hal-Vilvoorde prosecutor’s office.
The two victims, Magali W., 46, and her daughter Coline, 17, were found dead on March 24 at their home in Kraainem where they lived with the suspect. It was the latter who alerted the emergency services the same evening when he discovered a pool of blood in the entrance hall of the house. The emergency services then found the bodies of the two victims, killed by several stab wounds.
The two victims’ mobile phones had disappeared, as had Magali W.’s car, but there were no other signs of a burglary. Some elements even suggested that the two women had been killed on the night of March 23 to 24.
Magali W.’s car has now been found in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and is being analyzed. “My client maintains that he is totally innocent,” argued the suspect’s lawyer, Me Dimitri de Béco, Tuesday morning before the council chamber. “There are suspicions once morest my client, but no serious clues. This is not enough to keep him in prison. The question of who committed the facts if it is not my client deserves to be asked but it is not enough to keep him in pre-trial detention”, he pleaded. Pierre D. explained that he spent the night of March 23 to 24 with a friend who confirmed the facts during two hearings.
