Herentals, belgium The man suspected of the arson in Herentals and Meerhout was two times already in prison for similar offences. In 1995, Dieter K. a suspect of 23 cases of arson in Hemiksem, and in 2004 he would have the house of his parents in a fire. He ended up always being behind bars, but went two times unpunished for lack of evidence.
Herentals on Thursday night, april 4, rocked by a series of fires. In the allotments to the Olympiadelaan were caravans and a duivehok on fire, at the station went to a waste container on fire. The fires were soon considered suspicious and still the same evening the police Dieter K. (46) from Meerhout pick it up as suspicious. He behaved suspiciously on a platform of the train station in Herentals. Shortly after his arrest was the link established with a series of suspicious fires that one week earlier had taken place in his home town of Meerhout.
Hemiksem
The chances are that suspicious Dieter K. in his life much more arsons accumulates. Arson for which he is not convicted can be… because he was there years ago already acquitted. The arsonist who is now suspected of the recent arsons in Herentals and Meerhout was as a boy once prime suspect in an investigation into a series of 23 cases of arson in his former hometown Hemiksem.