Suspect in Brussels Daylight Throat-Slitting Murder Remains Jailed as Investigation Continues

New developments in the murder of Mounia. Eddy Cochez, the suspect’s lawyer, announced that the indictment chamber of Brussels has confirmed the decision to extend his client’s preventive detention by one month. Information already reported by Sudpresse.

The suspect is a 26-year-old man. For his colleagues, he is the potential perpetrator of Mounia’s murder. This certainty led the investigators to research the young man’s schedule. Before May 30, the day of the murder, the suspect had been arrested on the Rue de Brabant in Schaerbeek. He had just threatened a passer-by with a knife.

During his interrogation, the man made the investigators believe that he had left his home on the evening of the Moroccan woman’s murder. However, he will be confounded by the images of a surveillance camera of a store located near the crime scene. In this video, he is seen appearing just after the events. The suspect then changes his version. Another fact that could confirm his involvement in this murder: a knife and a blood-stained sweatshirt found at his home during a search.

On Sunday, May 30, around 7:40 p.m., as Mounia was walking in the street with her baby in a stroller, she received knife blows to the neck, at the intersection of the Rue des Deux Maisons and the Avenue du Cimetière de Bruxelles, in Evere. Admitted to the hospital, she succumbed to her injuries. The investigation opened for murder continues.