The police have apprehended one of Belgium’s most wanted criminals. Mohamed Amine Dardour (photo above) is suspected of a murder committed in 2020. Since then, he escaped from police custody twice. Mohamed Amine Dardour had been on the Belgian Federal Police Service’s most wanted list since June of this year.
The Federal Police spokeswoman An Berger told VRT News that „He is a very dangerous criminal”. The 25-tear-old was spotted in a car in the Mechelen area of Antwerp Province. Officers from the local police service were able to find and arrest the murder suspect. When he was arrested Mohamed Amine Dardour was under the influence of drugs and in possession of false identity documents, a firearm and ammunition.
The Federal Police Service spokeswoman An Berger told VRT News that the suspect had been sentenced in his absence to 2 years’ imprisonment for GBH. “But in the meantime, he had also become a suspect in a murder and attempted murder case”.
He will have to stand trial for this later this year. The case concerns a shooting in the Vorst district of Brussels in June 2020, in which one person was killed and another person injured.
Dardour and an accomplice had initially handed themselves in to the police. However, not long afterwards he cut off his electronic ankle tag and escaped. In March 2021, he was arrested in the Spanish city of Malaga. However, once again he was able to escape the police. Mohamed Amine Dardour has been on an international wanted list since 17 June this year.