A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered that the suspect in a gruesome knife attack at a crèche — who killed two babies, a nurse and previously an elderly woman — be kept in custody.
Judges at a court in the town of Dendermonde, south-west of Antwerp, maintained the arrest warrant for 20-year-old unemployed man Kim De Gelder, according to prosecutors.
De Gelder has been charged with killing two infants, aged six and nine months, and a 54-year-old nurse in a macabre knife attack at a nursery in Dendermonde on Friday.
He was also charged on Monday with the stabbing murder of a 73-year-old woman at her home in Beveren, near Antwerp, earlier this month.
Although De Gelder has refused so far to speak about the incidents with authorities, he broke his silence in a first conversation with his lawyer on Monday.
”He understands that what he did was inhuman,” the Belga news agency reported lawyer Jaak Haentjens as saying late Monday.
”I think that he feels regret. That’s what he says, but it would be going too far to say that he repents,” he added. — AFP
