The last straw broke the camel's back:
the stepson of the Belgian Baroness Myriam Ullens de Schooten
, a former member of the State security forces turned freelance consultant and "youtuber", could not stand the management more than his father's new wife She was making the family fortune and waited for him at the exit of his mansion
to shoot her dead
.
Belgian Baroness Myriam Ullens de Schooten.
The story has all the ingredients for a romantic cocktail, but it really happened exactly one week ago in
a town of 6,000 inhabitants
in Walloon Brabant, Belgium;
the defendant is Nicolas Ullens, son by the first marriage of Baron Guy Ullens of Schooten Whettnall, who has just spent his first night in the overcrowded Nivelles prison with two other inmates
in a 9m2 cell.
Since the crime was committed on March 29, Belgian media have reconstructed the family history, the disagreements between the baron's children and his second wife and the circumstances of the murder of Myriam, 70, who called herself Mimi and
was
a
modest single mother of two children
before marrying Guy Ullens in 1999.
queen's friend
Since then, she had become
close friends with Queen Mathilde
of the Belgians, who would have stayed at her chalet in Switzerland on her visits to the country with King Philippe, and also with other members of the Royal Family, with whom she was seen at cultural events.
The murdered Baroness and her husband, by Baron Guy Ullens of Schooten Whettnall (© Violaine le).
As a couple, both aristocrats had invested large amounts of their fortune in Asian art and, after a trip to Nepal, also in an orphanage and a school in Kathmandu, while she threw herself into her own breast cancer foundation, created her
own luxury clothing brand
and wrote a book published in 2017.
The Prosecutor's Office speaks of a "financial conflict" as the cause of the crime;
According to media reports such as
Le Soir
, the four children from Ullens' first marriage were unhappy with how Myriam was spending the family's assets (valued at
$3.5 billion
in 2011) and with the fact that the woman had distanced them from her father.
the murder
According to the story published in the media, Nicolás would have gone to the family mansion on March 29 and had one more discussion with his 88-year-old father and his stepmother;
when he left the house, he waited for them and
shot Myriam to death, wounding his father in the leg.
A sister of the defendant, Brigitte, has assured the press that Nicolás is an "extremely nice" person, who had just been a grandfather three months ago and was about to go on vacation with his family, so he did not think that the attack would have been premeditated but "everything exploded on Wednesday".
The murdered woman is accused by her stepson of wanting to seize all of her husband's fortune (Instagram).
"Our family has been devastated for years. For Mimi, only one thing mattered:
she wanted the family fortune for herself
, and we didn't matter. She even forbade Dad to have contact with us. In recent years, Dad's state of mind has deteriorated. deteriorated and she has taken advantage of it," Brigitte said.
According to his account, the woman had just
put the house up for sale
.
"What was she planning to do with that money? No idea, but we can assume she was going to keep it. She drove a wedge between our family and dad," she says.
The criminal
Nicolás was not unknown in many Belgian circles either: he worked in state security between 2007 and 2018, when he resigned due to "pressure from his bosses" and began working as a "freelance" for a consultancy, work that he combined with his crusades. personal charges for alleged corruption and money laundering against the former Belgian Finance Minister and now European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.
All the investigations that he managed to open ended up being archived.
In March 2020, he took to
YouTube
to start posting videos about his experience working for the state and "some hot activity information."
When she met the baron, the woman was a single mother of two children (AFP).
Thousands of visits accumulate titles such as "The Government, the masks and the gangsters", "When state security loses confidential data" or
"The Belgian friends of the KGB"
, publications that earned him a judicial investigation against him for violation of secrecy professional.
On the left the criminal, on the right the baron and his wife (©BELGIAN + montage eda).
Nicolás turned himself in after the crime and his lawyers asked that he only be kept in pretrial detention.
When a week has passed since he allegedly murdered his stepmother, he woke up today in the Nivelles prison, which houses
263 prisoners
despite having only 192 places.
As the two people in his nine-square-meter cell already occupied the bunk, the baron's son
slept on a mattress on the floor.
"A detainee is a detainee," concluded the
SudInfo newspaper.
EFE Agency.
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