Freddy Horion: The Ghent Family Massacre
On 23 June 1979, five people were murdered in a house in Sint-Amandsberg, near Ghent. A father, a mother, two daughters, and a young man who had only come home to see the woman he loved. Months earlier, a Polish shopkeeper had been shot in the port of Ghent. The same weapon. The same names in the dock.
Freddy Horion — Sunglasses, the Monster — and Roland Feneulle were convicted of six murders and sentenced to death, immediately commuted to life. Feneulle died in prison. Horion did not. For nearly half a century he was one of Belgium’s longest-serving prisoners, while courts, relatives, and…
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