After a year-long escape are two of Europe's most wanted criminals has been arrested in Elfensbenskysten, writes the BBC.
Jean-Claude Lacote and Hilde van Acker is sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the murder of a british businessman in 1996 in Belgium.
It turns out now, after 23 years, they've been living in south Africa, Brazil and the ivory coast before they were apprehended.
Belgian Hilde van Acker and the French Jean-Claude Lacote murdered their business partner, uk Marcus Mitchell, in the belgian coastal town of De Haan.
the Pair shot the british man in the head and neck 23. may 1996.
During the investigation of the killing, the couple were on the loose. It was in this period, so that they fled out of the country.
last week was no more, and the two criminals were arrested in Abidjan in the ivory coast in western Africa of gendameriet. Now, Belgium will be given to the couple so that they can serve the penalty in the country.
After the escape from Belgium, they sprung up in many different places. First they fled to Brazil, then to south Africa, where Jean-Claude Lacote began a career as a TV host. Ironic for a series about crime called Duty Calls, writes ST.
How so, since the last week, was arrested in côte d'ivoire. Photo: Ivory Coast Gendarmerie
In south Africa the pair could not keep within the framework of the law. In 2007, Jean-Claude Lacote was to several years in prison in Johannesburg for several fraud cases. But here he got off free.
Udbryderkongen got the help of his partner, Hilde van Acker to get out. She forgav to be a policeman, and on the way they got him cheated out.
the Couple had made the name change to Stephane Lacote and Marlene Lacote the Handsome, supposedly for an avoid being discovered.
Hilde van Acker has long been on Interpol's list of Europe's most dangerous fugitives are women.
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