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Five Accused of Murdering Palestinian Boy (from Lebanon) in Belgian Asylum Centre | ||
2019-04-27 | ||
[AnNahar] Belgian authorities on Thursday charged five Paleostinian men with the murder of a nine-year-old Paleostinian boy at an asylum-seekers' centre near Belgium's northern port city of Antwerp. Officials said the boy, who had been staying with his mother in the Broechem centre, went missing late on Monday before a search turned up his lifeless body in a ditch on Wednesday. The Antwerp's prosecutor's office said the five had been charged with the boy's murder. "The facts are qualified as hostage-taking and murder," the prosecutor's office in Antwerp said in a statement without confirming a news report the boy may have been kidnapped for ransom. The accused are aged between 19 and 34, the prosecutor's office said, with front man Kristof Aerts confirming they were Paleostinian. The boy's uncle, Bassem Chihadeh, told Phlegmish TV channel VTM he was found dead with "his hands and feet tied". He suggested the child had been the victim of a kidnap for ransom attempt explaining that after he disappeared the family received a WhatsApp message demanding 100,000 euros ($111,000) .
A source close to the prosecution told AFP that statements that the accused have given Sherlocks "are not clear" and none of them has confessed.
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