Julien D. appears for the second time before a popular jury, a fairly rare event but not unique in Belgium. In this case, the accused was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2008 before the Hainaut Assize Court for a racist assassination attempt. On the night of April 19 to 20, 2006, the latter and two associates (also sentenced to 15 and 18 years in prison) threw a Molotov cocktail in the direction of three prostitutes of African origin in Charleroi. One of the three victims suffered serious burns over almost his entire body.
The “subscribers” to the meetings
In May 2023, Fabien Lombaerts, nicknamed the “belt killer”, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of four homeless people in Brussels and Walloon Brabant during the summer of 2018. Nearly twenty years earlier, in 2004 , he also received an 18-year prison sentence for stabbing an elderly lady outside a restaurant in order to repay a debt.
Among these “subscribers” to the meetings, let us also cite the case of Richard Remes, Patricia Lefranc’s vitriolist. Richard Remes had thrown sulfuric acid, formerly called vitriol, in the face of his ex-mistress on December 1, 2009. The events took place in the lobby of the building where they each occupied an apartment, avenue du Sippelberg , in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. The Brussels Assize Court gave him the maximum sentence, 30 years in prison for attempted murder in 2012. Five years later, he was sentenced to 17 years for the murder of the daughter of another mistress. , in 1988. Little Sandra, 16 months old, received a violent blow to the chest before being thrown from the 10th floor of a building located on Rue Haute, in the Marolles in Brussels.
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Richard Remes had benefited from a dismissal of this case in 1997 before it was reopened following the parallels drawn between the Lefranc and little Sandra cases.
Marcel Habran
From the memory of the legal chroniclers interviewed for this non-exhaustive list, we have to go back to Marcel Habran to find a “subscriber” to the assizes on the French-speaking side. The latter was one of the godfathers of the Belgian underworld specializing in van robberies. He was first sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1974 for the death of a cash courier in Schaerbeek, the so-called “Brusilia” affair, then to 15 years in prison in 2008 in another van attack which cost the life to two other cash transporters in Waremme in 1998. This case has the particularity of having been judged twice by the Assize Court of Liège then that of Namur, the first decision having been overturned by the Court of Cassation. Marcel Habran therefore appeared at least three times before a criminal court.
