Robert Hendy-Freegard, suspected of the attempted murder of two gendarmes last August in Creuse, is expected very soon in Limoges after being handed over to France on Monday, October 17 by the Belgian authorities.
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Belgium handed over to France the British fugitive, suspected of the attempted murder of two gendarmes last August in Creuse, franceinfo learned from a judicial source on Tuesday, October 18, confirming information from AFP. Robert Hendy-Freegard will be presented to an examining magistrate in Limoges this Thursday.
On August 25, the 51-year-old man drove his car into two gendarmes who were inspecting his canine breeding of 26 dogs, kept in cages, in Vidaillait, before fleeing. Targeted by a European arrest warrant, he was arrested on September 2 on a Belgian highway in the Ghent sector thanks to a video surveillance device which made it possible to locate his vehicle.
Investigating the suspect, law enforcement realized he was the man at the heart of the documentary”The Puppetmaster: manipulation lessons“and movie”RogueAgent” streaming on Netflix.
The man was sentenced to life in 2005 in the UK for kidnapping, deception, theft from students and women, from whom he had extracted more than a million pounds by posing as an MI5 spy , the British domestic intelligence service. But he was released in 2009 after his conviction was overturned by an appeals court.