DNA on spoon leads investigators to suspect of grenade attack in Antwerp (Borgerhout)
A 21-year-old young man was arrested for a grenade attack in March in the Sterlingerstraat in Borgerhout. His DNA was on the spoon of the used grenade.
A loud bang woke the residents of the Sterlingerstraat in Borgerhout on March 26. It had been thrown under an explosive car. It turned out to be aimed at a certain ‘Mounir’. The windows of his parental home were shattered, and neighbors’ windows were also broken. That he was clear was made clear by a message developed on an adjacent garage door. ‘Mounir informant’, was the point there.
The lab was able to find the spoon of the used grenade on site. That find until now, nine months later, the arrest of a suspect. “The DNA of a 21-year-old man was found on the spoon of the used grenade”, A prosecutor Kristoferts. The suspect was therefore already known when his DNA was justified in a database.
The young man from Borgerhout was arrested on Wednesday afternoon by the Federal Judicial Police, he was brought before the investigating judge on Thursday. “He is at night for sleep destruction and says an organization”, Aerts. The suspect will appear in court next week.
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