Belgium on alert for soldier after threats to VIPs
‘WELL TRAINED’: A Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office spokesman said Juergen Conings had disappeared with weapons and had left behind a ‘worrying’ letter
AFP, BRUSSELS
Police on Wednesday stepped up a search for a Belgian soldier with suspected extreme-right views and access to rocket launchers who went missing after threatening public figures including a renowned virus expert.
Late on Wednesday, the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office said, about 250 police officers and soldiers were deployed to a national park in the northeast, where Corporal Juergen Conings was thought to be hiding.
The suspect’s abandoned four-wheel drive vehicle was found near the park on Tuesday evening with “four anti-tank rocket launchers and some munition,” the prosecutor’s office said.
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