A 50-year-old man that shot dead the proprietor of a bar in the Goede Lucht area of the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht has been formally charged with murder. He will remain in custody until Friday a Brussels court will decide on Friday whether he is to remain on remand.
On Sunday, an ongoing dispute between the proprietor of the La Maison Haute bar on the Itterbeekselaan and the tenant of a flat above the bar got seriously out of hand. The man in his 50s entered the bar and opened fire on the publican, who was also his landlord.
The seriously injured publican was taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries. A suspect was apprehended quickly. The man rented a flat on the third floor, above the bar. The suspect has since been questioned by police and appeared before an examining magistrate.
The examining magistrate decided to charge him with murder and demand him is custody.