For Eddy Vos, “the primary question is who was behind Beijer and Bouhouche”. Who were they riding for? And his answer: in fact, we never knew. However, he says, “the connections are numerous.”
The former head of investigation of the Brabant Killings, Eddy Vos, reveals his hypotheses to us: “To begin, let’s ask ourselves the right questions”
For Eddy Vos, it is not insignificant that the trial of the BND case ended in April 1982, that is to say just before the first facts linked to Walloon Brabant, the theft in May 82 in Ixelles of the Austin Allegro followed by that of the VW Santana which would be used in the attack on the grocery store in Maubeuge and the attack on the Dekaise armory in Wavre.
Eddy Vos does not see the chronology as a coincidence. For him, the trial of the case of gendarmerie commander Léon François had demonstrated that the BND and its American connections called on the criminal world for their dirty work. The BND leaders were sentenced to prison terms. However, they believed they had acted to “protect” society. For them, the Belgian police system was not up to the task of fighting new crime. They had sought to demonstrate it and both the political leaders and the general staff had ignored them.
Should the weaknesses of the system be shown differently? Through the killings, and in particular the attack on Colruyt de Nivelles?
For Jean-Pierre Adam, they are the Brabant Killers: “I was going to come back from Reims with a wealth of information but the meeting ended short”
Targeted indications
Eddy Vos sees connections in the affair of the dormant Gladio networks. “In this case, we find the use of weapons caches (like the one buried under the Vilvoorde viaduct, with part of the weapons stolen from the ESI, the special gendarmerie intervention squadron: the weapons were so well packaged that they could be used twenty years later, which shows that it was not intended to be used immediately).
Eddy Vos recalls the gold theft of the Zwarts affair, the caches with military equipment typically Gladio and the details of the identity cards (stolen in Chaumont-Gistoux, found in Sart-Dames-Avelines on the instructions of Beijer at his trial).
Eddy Vos thus arrives in Beijer, Bouhouche and his great friend Mendez (commercial director at the FN, murdered in Rixensart, early January 1986). “They were convinced that our society was being infiltrated by the Russians (what we called ‘the Red Peril’), and that we therefore had to act and be ready in the event of an invasion.”
Mendez was convinced that the weapons stolen from his home in May 1985 had been used in the killings in Brabant four months later. “But what weapons was he talking about?” Vos asks, knowing that the weapons stolen from the ESI were not used.
The pieces of the puzzle
“Bouhouche’s links with the WNP are known,” continues Eddy Vos, “unlike Beijer.”
However, the WNP seems to be copied from Gladio and, according to its members, the Westland New Post had essentially the same objectives. The fact that Gladio remained secret until 1990, unlike the WNP which already appeared in 1981, confirms that there were connections.
There will no longer be a statute of limitations for the Brabant Killers case
One clue is that at the WNP the same method was used as at Gladio to recognize each other, that is to say the system of the torn 20 franc note, the half notes having to complement each other.
Eddy Vos adds shooting exercises in the woods of Hourpes and La Houssière, two places which recur in Walloon Brabant. It still recalls the Gigungagap operation about which Michel Libert, number 2 of the WNP, spoke a lot. Libert explained that it was about supermarket recognition. And Bouhouche also had plans to extort supermarkets.
Eddy Vos, who sees a common thread in all this, does not exclude that a ‘pseudo-Gladio’ or a ‘pseudo-BIC-BND’ was created with the aim of using them in practice Walloon Brabant , either on the ground or to deceive the police. “It’s an approach,” he said, “that had never been considered before.”
