The woman in the purple suitcase. “While investigators were busy looking for a perpetrator, the Chinese mafia suddenly called”
They just wanted to move a closet in the basement. But on January 27, 2023, Soufiane, Bilal and Mohamed made a grisly discovery in the storage room in Deurne: they found part of a woman’s body in a purple suitcase. A little further away, the police found her feet, legs, a left arm and a hip in a garbage bag. Weeks earlier, the building had been checked as part of an investigation into human trafficking and an Asian woman was said to have received men in an apartment on the fourth floor. “He had also come by a few days earlier,” says crime journalist Cedric Lagast.
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