The 61-year-old president’s wife was killed on March 17 during the burglary of their apartment in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. The autopsy had revealed that the victim’s body presented four torso injuries and the abdomen caused by a safe or sharp object. Three luxury watches had also been stolen. The private secretary was deprived of freedom on April 4 after the search made at her home in Steenokkerzeel. The investigating judge charged him the day after the assassination and weapon porters by destination.
The secretary and the framework of Goodyear had an extramarital affair. The suspect would have had difficulty enduring the fact that the business manager did not intend to leave his wife. She would have gone by bicycle, disguised, to the couple’s apartment, would have entered it with a double of the keys, before stabbing Carmel D. The investigators suspect the woman of having gone to the apartment with the intention of killing Carmel D., which the suspect disputes.
According to the latter, she wanted to spend the day with her lover and felt trapped when Carmel D. returned to her home. She first tried to hide in a storage room next to the kitchen, but when Carmel D. entered, the suspect would have crossed it and stabbed with a knife. She says she has developed only a plan after the fact to pass the crime for a flight.
