Herentals on Thursday night, april 4, rocked by a series of fires. In the allotments to the Olympiadelaan were caravans and a duivehok on fire, at the station went to a waste container on fire. The fires were soon considered suspicious and still the same evening the police Dieter K. (46) from Meerhout pick it up as suspicious. He behaved suspiciously on a platform of the train station in Herentals. Shortly after his arrest was the link established with a series of suspicious fires that one week earlier had taken place in his home town of Meerhout.
HemiksemThe chances are that suspicious Dieter K. in his life much more arsons accumulates. Arson for which he is not convicted can be... because he was there years ago already acquitted. The arsonist who is now suspected of the recent arsons in Herentals and Meerhout was as a boy once prime suspect in an investigation into a series of 23 cases of arson in his former hometown Hemiksem.