Belgium’s unsolved crime case about to be unmasked?
A confession of a man affirming that his brother told him that he was “the Giant” before dying, reopens the debate on the most macabre crime history of Belgium, “the Brabant killers”.
This past October 21st a man made a confession into a police station where he admitted that his brother, Christiaan Bonkoffsky, affirmed moments before dying, two years ago, that he was “the Giant”. Bonkoffsky was fired off from an elite commando police in 1981 after getting his weapon “accidentally unloaded”.
“The Giant” was the leader of a band who in the eighties committed 18 robberies at supermarkets and gas stations with firearms causing 28 dead people and other 40 injured just in 3 years.
With “the Giant”, there where 2 more people in the group; “the Killer” who shot the victims, and “the Old Man”, who was the driver. It was believed that they came from military factions due to their high level of shooting arms, which where by the way high technology arms, or ways to escape. In fact, they have never been recognized, and conspiracy theories came to life. Some people said that they could be paid by the opposite factions of the government to destabilize it, but the fact is that 30 years have passed and nothing could be found out.
There are facts to trust in the confession Bonkoffsky made, because he never had an alibi when the crimes where committed, but there are still no specific evidences that determine him to be “the Giant”. But this fact can definitely unlock this case and maybe it will be resolved in the future.
