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The lifeless body of the victim, a 17-year-old Romanian girl, was discovered on May 16, 1999 in the center of Antwerp. His body had around twenty cuts and wounds inflicted by a sharp object.
Shortly before her death in this area known for its prostitution activities, the teenager had been seen in a bar in the company of her alleged pimp. Witnesses also saw a man flee after the incident. The suspect resided in Belgium under a false identity and had left the country after the death of the young girl. He then escaped the police radar, “despite the thorough investigation which was carried out at the time”, underlined a spokesperson for the public prosecutor.
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The Antwerp judicial police reviewed the file and an investigating judge was reappointed. In 2020, the latter asked the National Institute of Forensic and Criminology (INCC) to re-examine the DNA aspect of the investigation. Scientific developments have made it possible to identify the genetic profile of a single person, a man, on a glove left at the crime scene.
Traces of the suspect were finally found in Italy, where the fifty-year-old was arrested on August 21. His arrest warrant was extended for the second time by the Antwerp council chamber, the prosecution said on Tuesday.
