Bruges Nine years after the so-called duinenmoord in Zeebrugge wants the Bruges public prosecutor of the Turkish Dutchman Kenan B., the assize court for murder. The man denies to this day that he in the summer of 2010, the Bulgarian Milena Raycheva (26) to the life brought. He is already two years free, but will probably still be for the council to justify.

The duinenmoord of Zeebrugge dates in the meantime, from August 2010, and remained for a long time a mystery. Only four years after the date could the body of the victim identified as the Bulgarian Milena Raycheva (26). The identification was done through DNA testing and after the dissemination of a opsporingsbericht. The Turkish Dutchman Kenan B. came as the ex-partner of Raycheva directly in the crosshairs of investigators. Her family claimed that the man her regularly fold, and also endangered.

Not in Zeebrugge have been

On August 1, would Raycheva and Kenan B. to Calais pulled together to London. When the woman alone in the car still, she left him via a text message, you know that their relationship no longer saw the sit and go wild. The Bulgarian stepped indeed and walked away with 7,000 euros in cash from B. in the pocket. There stops the story for him, so says the Turkish Dutchman for years. “I’m Milena never follow myself, and am never in Zeebrugge have been,” he declares towards the detectives. Who find it especially suspicious that he after the disappearance, the family of his ex-financial continued support. According to the court, it went to zwijggeld. The statements of the family Raycheva – if known – the most burdensome elements at Kenan B. He was on 21 January 2015, arrested. A test on the lie detector, was not determined to be positive for the man. The detector recorded his statements that he had nothing to do with the death of his partner as a “liar”.

DNA research

The DNA research brought him back in close shoes. Hairs found on the body of Raycheva turned out to be not B. to come. Beginning January 2017, two years after his arrest, left the city after the Dutchman free on payment of a deposit of 10,000 euros. The public prosecutor drew up an appeal, but two weeks later confirmed the KI in Ghent, however, the release of B. The deposit was raised to 25,000 euros. It took a while for B. the money received, but eventually, he was nevertheless released from prison. Nine years after the date of the file around the duinenmoord completed. The public prosecutor of Bruges wants, Kenan B., the assize court by the qualification of murder. On april 3, the chambers are about that question, bending. The defense and civil parties receive or have the opportunity for additional research questions.