Breakthrough ?
Or a decoy…?
A backpack containing a large amount of ammunition was found Wednesday in Belgium, as part of the hunt for a soldier considered extremely dangerous.
New operations to find Jürgen Conings have, according to the newspaper Het Belang van Limburg, enabled the special units to find the bag in Dilsen-Stokkem, near the place where the car of the military and far-right sympathizer threatening to attack personalities.
According to RTBF, the backpack contained a box of hunting ammunition of a caliber identical to one of the weapons carried by the suspect.
It also contained food and showed traces of moisture, suggesting that it may have been abandoned or lost for some time.
The federal prosecutor refused to answer questions from the press, he just confirmed that certain objects were being analyzed.
He spent "more than two hours in the neighborhood of a target"
Jürgen Conings is a 46-year-old soldier and supporter of the far right. He announced in letters his intention to attack representatives of the State and at least one virologist, regularly threatened since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. He disappeared on May 17 after stealing weapons from his military base. The same evening, according to the Minister of Justice, he had spent “more than two hours in the neighborhood of a target”. He was then in the Dutch-speaking province of Limburg, in the north of the country, not far from the border with the Netherlands.
Two days after his disappearance, the soldier's car was found on the edge of the Haute Campine National Park. With four anti-tank rockets on board. Conings has lived for years in a chalet in this vast park of more than 5000 hectares. This is where the search has been taking place since May 19, with reinforcements of police forces from Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.