Shortly before the verdict on the sentence, the man had removed his electronic bracelet and fled. The arrest took place calmly and the condemned man was transferred to Saint-Gilles prison, the police said.
On March 31, 2019 at around 1 a.m., Michal Lenard, a 22-year-old Polish national, was stabbed to death in front of his family. Four hooded and armed men, including a mallet and a knife, had come to his home, his mother’s home, rue Maes in Ixelles. The assailants molested the victim in front of his mother, his partner and her daughter, then three years old. He had received 10 stab wounds, one of which pierced the pericardium and caused his death.
Damian Werengowski no longer represented himself before the Brussels Assize Court following the verdict finding him guilty of murder and he was sentenced by default to a 20-year prison sentence. Confidence man of Jaroslaw Poplawski, the sponsor of the punitive expedition, he had recruited men to carry out this settlement of accounts.