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|start=13 March 1982
 
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|perpetrators='The Giant', 'The Killer', 'The Old Man', Westland New Post?, Operation Gladio, Operatiën en Inlichtingen
 
|description=A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became [[Belgium]]'s most notorious unpunished crime spree.
 
|description=A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became [[Belgium]]'s most notorious unpunished crime spree.
 
|type=Serial killing, mass shootings, robberies
 
|type=Serial killing, mass shootings, robberies
 
|locations=Brabant, Belgium
 
|locations=Brabant, Belgium
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|ON_perpetrators=Unknown
 
 
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The '''Brabant Massacres''' were a spree of murderous robberies, not apparently motivated by financial gain as much as the desire to panic people. [[Allan Francovich]]'s 1992 [[Operation Gladio (film)|film]] on [[Operation Gladio]] suggests that it may have been connected to the [[Westland New Post]], a Belgian group founded by [[Paul Latinus]].<ref name=ug727>http://unwelcomeguests.net/727</ref>
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The '''Brabant Massacres''' were a spree of murderous robberies, not apparently motivated by financial gain as much as the desire to panic people. [[Allan Francovich]]'s 1992 [[Operation Gladio (film)|film]] on [[Operation Gladio]] suggests that they may have been connected to the [[Westland New Post]], a Belgian group founded by [[Paul Latinus]]. Investigation in [[Dutch]] media connected the Belgian and Dutch Gladio division and also raised more suspicion Westland New Post was a subgroup supported by another Gladio group named [[Operatiën en Inlichtingen]].<ref>https://www.bendevannijvel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=48807#p48807</ref><ref name=ug727>http://unwelcomeguests.net/727</ref>
  
 
== Belgian Gladio ==
 
== Belgian Gladio ==
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Some have suggested that [[Operation Gladio]] was activated in Belgium, as in Italy, to try to subdue the popularity of [[communist]]s. One difference was however that, in contrast to the bombings and other violence in [[Italy]], the Brabant Massacres were never explicitly blamed on communists.{{cn}}
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Some have suggested that [[Operation Gladio]] was activated in Belgium, as in Italy, to try to subdue the popularity of [[communist]]s. One difference was however that, in contrast to the bombings and other violence in [[Italy]], the Brabant Massacres were never explicitly blamed on communists.
  
 
=== Connections to SDRA8===
 
=== Connections to SDRA8===
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===Francovich's Film ===
 
===Francovich's Film ===
 
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[[Allan Francovich]]'s 1992 [[Operation Gladio (film)|film]] on [[Operation Gladio]] looked at suggested the Brabant Massacres may have been connected to [[Westland New Post]], a small private Belgian anti-communist organization whose leader [[Paul Latinus]] states that he was working with government agencies in a Gladio-like arrangement. In Francovich's interviews some WNP members (including some Gendarmerie) recall being ordered in the early eighties to covertly spy on and compile a report on the security arrangements at various Belgian supermarkets, including ones of a large chain that was the main target of the later killings. NATO behind-the-lines units are known to have used the planning of robberies as a theoretical exercise for training.<ref>Financial Times blog, May 10, 2013, [http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/2013/05/sir-ranulph-fiennes-in-court-over-bank-robbery-plan.html Sir Ranulph Fiennes caught trying to rob a bank]</ref><ref name="GVA_20141023">{{cite web|title=Ex-kopstuk Westland New Post vrijgelaten (''Former leader Westland New Post released'')|url=http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141023_01338458?_section=60674801&utm_source=standaard&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=middagmail&M_BT=7070213161&adh_i=|author=Gazet Van Antwerpen/Belga|year=2014}}</ref><ref name="Résistances.be">[http://www.resistances.be/tueurs16a.html Résistances.be] [http://www.resistances.be/tueurs16.html]</ref><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
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[[Allan Francovich]]'s 1992 [[Operation Gladio (film)|film]] on [[Operation Gladio]] looked at suggested the Brabant Massacres may have been connected to [[Westland New Post]], a small private Belgian anti-communist organization whose leader [[Paul Latinus]] states that he was working with government agencies in a Gladio-like arrangement. In Francovich's interviews some WNP members (including some Gendarmerie) recall being ordered in the early eighties to covertly spy on and compile a report on the security arrangements at various Belgian supermarkets, including ones of a large chain that was the main target of the later killings. NATO behind-the-lines units are known to have used the planning of robberies as a theoretical exercise for training.<ref>Financial Times blog, May 10, 2013, [http://thefinanser.co.uk/fsclub/2013/05/sir-ranulph-fiennes-in-court-over-bank-robbery-plan.html Sir Ranulph Fiennes caught trying to rob a bank]</ref><ref name="GVA_20141023">http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141023_01338458?_section=60674801&utm_source=standaard&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=middagmail&M_BT=7070213161&adh_i=</ref><ref name="Résistances.be">[http://www.resistances.be/tueurs16a.html Résistances.be] [http://www.resistances.be/tueurs16.html]</ref><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
 
<ref name="brusselstimes.com">The Brussels Times, 23 October 2014, [http://brusselstimes.com/brussels/1233/brabant-killers-michel-libert-wnp-taken-in-for-questioning-from-home-in-brussels Brabant killers: Michel Libert (WNP) taken in for questioning from home in Brussels]</ref><ref>RTBF [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-perquisition-et-interpellation-de-michel-libert-wnp?id=8384141 Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP)]</ref>
 
<ref name="brusselstimes.com">The Brussels Times, 23 October 2014, [http://brusselstimes.com/brussels/1233/brabant-killers-michel-libert-wnp-taken-in-for-questioning-from-home-in-brussels Brabant killers: Michel Libert (WNP) taken in for questioning from home in Brussels]</ref><ref>RTBF [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-perquisition-et-interpellation-de-michel-libert-wnp?id=8384141 Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP)]</ref>
  
 
[[Michel Libert]], the former no. 2 of [[Westland New Post]] has admitted that passing on orders to covertly assess supermarket security, though he has denied knowing anything more of the matter. Specifically, he insisted that Paul Latinus never told him of the purpose of these assignments.<ref name="GVA_20141023"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
 
[[Michel Libert]], the former no. 2 of [[Westland New Post]] has admitted that passing on orders to covertly assess supermarket security, though he has denied knowing anything more of the matter. Specifically, he insisted that Paul Latinus never told him of the purpose of these assignments.<ref name="GVA_20141023"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
 
<ref name="brusselstimes.com"/><ref name="rtbf.be">[http://www.rtbf.be/tv/emission/detail_devoir-d-enquete/actualites/article_michel-libert-interpelle-le-jour-de-la-diffusion-du-devoir-d-enquete-speciale-tueries-du-brabant?id=8389250&emissionId=94 Michel Libert interpellé le jour de la diffusion du Devoir d'Enquête " Spéciale TUERIES DU BRABANT "]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">3 octobre 2014 , [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-michel-libert-libere-sans-inculpation?id=8385308 Tueries du Brabant: pas d'inculpation de Michel Libert]</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">RTBF [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-perquisition-et-interpellation-de-michel-libert-wnp?id=8384141 Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP) ]</ref>
 
<ref name="brusselstimes.com"/><ref name="rtbf.be">[http://www.rtbf.be/tv/emission/detail_devoir-d-enquete/actualites/article_michel-libert-interpelle-le-jour-de-la-diffusion-du-devoir-d-enquete-speciale-tueries-du-brabant?id=8389250&emissionId=94 Michel Libert interpellé le jour de la diffusion du Devoir d'Enquête " Spéciale TUERIES DU BRABANT "]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">3 octobre 2014 , [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-michel-libert-libere-sans-inculpation?id=8385308 Tueries du Brabant: pas d'inculpation de Michel Libert]</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">RTBF [http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_tueries-du-brabant-perquisition-et-interpellation-de-michel-libert-wnp?id=8384141 Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP) ]</ref>
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<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="GVA_201410">{{nl_icon}} {{cite web|title=Gewezen lid extreemrechtse groepering ondervraagd over Bende van Nijvel (''Former member extreme right group interrogated about Brabant Killers'')|url=http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20141022_01336103/gewezen-wnp-lid-michel-libert-opgepakt-en-ondervraagd?hkey=980bb7c7bcf44dd8cb699af9b81bfd95&utm_source=gva&utm_medium=nieuwsbrief&utm_campaign=enieuws&M_BT=17367923862|author=Gazet Van Antwerpen/Belga|year=2014}}</ref>
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<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="GVA_201410">{{nl_icon}} http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20141022_01336103/gewezen-wnp-lid-michel-libert-opgepakt-en-ondervraagd?hkey=980bb7c7bcf44dd8cb699af9b81bfd95&utm_source=gva&utm_medium=nieuwsbrief&utm_campaign=enieuws&M_BT=17367923862</ref>
  
 
In 1983 Libert had been staying with [[Marcel Barbier]], a WNP member, when he was arrested for using a weapon in a street fight and became suspected of a double murder at a synagogue a year earlier. When police then began investigating WNP, Latinus told them that Barbier and another WNP member were behind the synagogue murders, and that Latinus had helped Barbier getting rid of the murder weapon and other relevant evidence. Barbier was the only person convicted for these murders, his co-accused who was acquitted, but later convicted of a similar double murder of diamond merchants, appeared in a Belgian TV program in 2014, where he alleged WNP was behind the Brabant killings based on WNP apparently having compiled information on the premises raided. Libert was arrested as a suspect soon after the program was broadcast, but released without charge after 48 hours.<ref name="GVA_20141023"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
 
In 1983 Libert had been staying with [[Marcel Barbier]], a WNP member, when he was arrested for using a weapon in a street fight and became suspected of a double murder at a synagogue a year earlier. When police then began investigating WNP, Latinus told them that Barbier and another WNP member were behind the synagogue murders, and that Latinus had helped Barbier getting rid of the murder weapon and other relevant evidence. Barbier was the only person convicted for these murders, his co-accused who was acquitted, but later convicted of a similar double murder of diamond merchants, appeared in a Belgian TV program in 2014, where he alleged WNP was behind the Brabant killings based on WNP apparently having compiled information on the premises raided. Libert was arrested as a suspect soon after the program was broadcast, but released without charge after 48 hours.<ref name="GVA_20141023"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/><ref name="Résistances.be"/>
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The Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio suggested that they found no "substantive" evidence that Gladio had committed any acts of "[[terrorism]]", or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network.<ref>http://www.senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf</ref><ref>[http://www.comiteri.be/index_en.html Permanent Committee for the Control of Intelligence Agencies] (Belgium) See in particular the "history" section in the "Presentation" part.</ref> The Belgian Gendarmerie were abolished in reforms that came as a result of a perceived lack of satisfactory performance in the case of the Brabant Massacres, and that of [[Marc Dutroux]].<ref>
 
The Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio suggested that they found no "substantive" evidence that Gladio had committed any acts of "[[terrorism]]", or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network.<ref>http://www.senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf</ref><ref>[http://www.comiteri.be/index_en.html Permanent Committee for the Control of Intelligence Agencies] (Belgium) See in particular the "history" section in the "Presentation" part.</ref> The Belgian Gendarmerie were abolished in reforms that came as a result of a perceived lack of satisfactory performance in the case of the Brabant Massacres, and that of [[Marc Dutroux]].<ref>
 
[http://www.lachambre.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0573/49K0573007.pdf Chronologie des faits attribués aux tueurs du Brabant] page 21-22</ref>
 
[http://www.lachambre.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0573/49K0573007.pdf Chronologie des faits attribués aux tueurs du Brabant] page 21-22</ref>
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=== Development in 2017 ===
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The Belgian broadcaster VTM reported in October<ref>https://nieuws.vtm.be/vtm-nieuws/binnenland/broer-van-de-reus-getuigt-bij-vtm-nieuws</ref> that one of the Brabant killers had confessed to his brother, that he was the suspect identified as [['The Giant']].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/24/deathbed-confession-may-crack-case-of-the-crazy-brabant-killers-belgian-gang</ref>
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==Cercle connections==
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{{FA|Le Cercle}}
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[[David Teacher]] wrote in ''[[Rogue Agents]]'' that "the [[Cercle]] complex also had close links to those waging
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a strategy of tension to support a right-wing coup, the latest example of which was the strategy of tension which killed 32 people in Belgium from 1982 to 1985."
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Latest revision as of 19:39, 30 July 2022

Event.png "Mass shooting,  murder,  panic"
Brabant Massacres (Strategy of tension,  Operation Gladio,  false flag?) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Brabant Massacres.jpg
Date13 March 1982 - 9 November 1985
LocationBrabant,  Belgium
Perpetrators'The Giant', 'The Killer', 'The Old Man', Westland New Post?, Operation Gladio, Operatiën en Inlichtingen
Type•  Serial killing
• Columbine Never Sleeps.png mass shootings
•  robberies
Deaths28
Injured (non-fatal)40
DescriptionA set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree.

The Brabant Massacres were a spree of murderous robberies, not apparently motivated by financial gain as much as the desire to panic people. Allan Francovich's 1992 film on Operation Gladio suggests that they may have been connected to the Westland New Post, a Belgian group founded by Paul Latinus. Investigation in Dutch media connected the Belgian and Dutch Gladio division and also raised more suspicion Westland New Post was a subgroup supported by another Gladio group named Operatiën en Inlichtingen.[1][2]

Belgian Gladio

Some have suggested that Operation Gladio was activated in Belgium, as in Italy, to try to subdue the popularity of communists. One difference was however that, in contrast to the bombings and other violence in Italy, the Brabant Massacres were never explicitly blamed on communists.

Connections to SDRA8

The last attack when the gang struck despite patrols checking the supermarket every twenty minutes led to rumours of them having some kind of inside knowledge and possibly complicity by individual Gendarmerie in the attacks. Gendarmerie vehicles (which had an Uzi in a compartment) were present approximately 100 meters away, but failed to engage or pursue the attackers. The Belgian stay-behind network Gladio/SDRA8 — operating under the control of the Belgian General Information and Security Service was suggested by some to have links to the gang.

Francovich's Film

Full article: Operation Gladio (film)

Allan Francovich's 1992 film on Operation Gladio looked at suggested the Brabant Massacres may have been connected to Westland New Post, a small private Belgian anti-communist organization whose leader Paul Latinus states that he was working with government agencies in a Gladio-like arrangement. In Francovich's interviews some WNP members (including some Gendarmerie) recall being ordered in the early eighties to covertly spy on and compile a report on the security arrangements at various Belgian supermarkets, including ones of a large chain that was the main target of the later killings. NATO behind-the-lines units are known to have used the planning of robberies as a theoretical exercise for training.[3][4][5][5] [6][7]

Michel Libert, the former no. 2 of Westland New Post has admitted that passing on orders to covertly assess supermarket security, though he has denied knowing anything more of the matter. Specifically, he insisted that Paul Latinus never told him of the purpose of these assignments.[4][5][5] [6][8][9][10] [10][11]

In 1983 Libert had been staying with Marcel Barbier, a WNP member, when he was arrested for using a weapon in a street fight and became suspected of a double murder at a synagogue a year earlier. When police then began investigating WNP, Latinus told them that Barbier and another WNP member were behind the synagogue murders, and that Latinus had helped Barbier getting rid of the murder weapon and other relevant evidence. Barbier was the only person convicted for these murders, his co-accused who was acquitted, but later convicted of a similar double murder of diamond merchants, appeared in a Belgian TV program in 2014, where he alleged WNP was behind the Brabant killings based on WNP apparently having compiled information on the premises raided. Libert was arrested as a suspect soon after the program was broadcast, but released without charge after 48 hours.[4][5][5] [6][8][9][10] [10][11]

Parliamentary inquiry denies connections

The Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio suggested that they found no "substantive" evidence that Gladio had committed any acts of "terrorism", or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network.[12][13] The Belgian Gendarmerie were abolished in reforms that came as a result of a perceived lack of satisfactory performance in the case of the Brabant Massacres, and that of Marc Dutroux.[14]

Development in 2017

The Belgian broadcaster VTM reported in October[15] that one of the Brabant killers had confessed to his brother, that he was the suspect identified as 'The Giant'.[16]

Cercle connections

Full article: Rated 5/5 Le Cercle

David Teacher wrote in Rogue Agents that "the Cercle complex also had close links to those waging a strategy of tension to support a right-wing coup, the latest example of which was the strategy of tension which killed 32 people in Belgium from 1982 to 1985."


 

Event

EventDescription
Brabant MassacresA set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree.
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.bendevannijvel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=48807#p48807
  2. ↑ http://unwelcomeguests.net/727
  3. ↑ Financial Times blog, May 10, 2013, Sir Ranulph Fiennes caught trying to rob a bank
  4. ↑ a b c http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141023_01338458?_section=60674801&utm_source=standaard&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=middagmail&M_BT=7070213161&adh_i=
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Résistances.be [1]
  6. ↑ a b c The Brussels Times, 23 October 2014, Brabant killers: Michel Libert (WNP) taken in for questioning from home in Brussels
  7. ↑ RTBF Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP)
  8. ↑ a b Michel Libert interpellé le jour de la diffusion du Devoir d'Enquête " Spéciale TUERIES DU BRABANT "
  9. ↑ a b 3 octobre 2014 , Tueries du Brabant: pas d'inculpation de Michel Libert
  10. ↑ a b c d RTBF Tueries du Brabant: perquisition et interpellation de Michel Libert (WNP)
  11. ↑ a b (in Dutch) http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20141022_01336103/gewezen-wnp-lid-michel-libert-opgepakt-en-ondervraagd?hkey=980bb7c7bcf44dd8cb699af9b81bfd95&utm_source=gva&utm_medium=nieuwsbrief&utm_campaign=enieuws&M_BT=17367923862
  12. ↑ http://www.senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf
  13. ↑ Permanent Committee for the Control of Intelligence Agencies (Belgium) See in particular the "history" section in the "Presentation" part.
  14. ↑ Chronologie des faits attribués aux tueurs du Brabant page 21-22
  15. ↑ https://nieuws.vtm.be/vtm-nieuws/binnenland/broer-van-de-reus-getuigt-bij-vtm-nieuws
  16. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/24/deathbed-confession-may-crack-case-of-the-crazy-brabant-killers-belgian-gang
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