Recent Events
In 2004, the police found some abandoned weaponry, clothing and jewelry in the Bois de la Houssière, the forest where the three main suspects were spotted for the last time in 1985. In 2005, after an anonymous tip, the investigators hoped to find the buried corpse of one of the three gang leaders in the same forest, without any success. In 2006, in the south of France, the houses of several notorious criminals were searched in order to find a new lead. Among these suspects was the criminal and former Gendarmerie member Madani Bouhouche, who died a few months before the house-search in a chainsaw accident while cutting a tree in his garden. In January 2009, searches targeting weaponry lead to the discovery of human bones, speculated to be those of the gang member wounded by police. However the remains are now believed to be far older .
In 2015, all these crimes will expire and no judicial measures against the gang will be possible. The crimes would have expired in the year 2000, but the Belgian Parliament passed two special acts to extend the investigation.
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