The assassination of the mayor of Mouscron, a Belgian border commune with France, has brought to the fore a case of hatreds and Revenges kept for years. Alfred Gadenne, 71 years old, lived with the dead naturally. Despite being the mayor, every morning and every night he opened and closed the doors of the cemetery personally. His house was near the cemetery and turned that work into a habit that his murderer knew. On Monday night, when he was about to shut down the graveyard as he was every day, he was slashed.
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Dominique’s strange death the search for his assailant was not delayed. According to local media, the suspect was detained at the scene of the crime after being handed over to the police, and the first hypotheses point to revenge as motive for the murder. The Belgian agency has reported that the detainee is an 18-year-old boy who sought to avenge the death of his father, a firefighter fired from his work in 2015 who had then committed suicide. Two years later, his offspring, blaming the mayor of the event, pounced on Gadenne with a knife and killed him.
The politician, a member of the Humanist Democratic Centre (HRC), had agreed to the mayor’s office after being imposed by an absolute majority, and he was also a Walloon member, so his death has generated reactions among the highest instances of the Belgian Government. “I find out with horror of the brutal death of Alfred Gadenne.” My solidarity with his family and his relatives, tweeted on Monday night the Prime Minister Charles Michel.
Mouscron, 60,000 inhabitants, has barely recorded any violent incidents in recent years. The police presumed a widespread decline in crime and homicides have been in the last few years with the fingers of one hand.
