– The Brabant Killers case gets the “based on true events” treatment in this first go at a bilingual series from Belgium’s national broadcasters, directed by Wouter Bouvijn
Tijmen Govaerts and Aimé Claeys in 1985
The Brabant Killers case might not ring a bell for you. The killings, unfolding from 1982 to 1985 in the central province of Brabant, Belgium, all followed a straightforward and brutal formula of armed robberies and random murders, with close to 30 people dying at the gang’s hands over the course of three years. The investigation is still open to this day and has failed to charge or even identify the members of the gang. What has emerged, though, is how closely tied these masked shooters were to some upper echelons of the Belgian authorities. Several Belgian films have already taken a shot at this dramatic topic (Above the Law by Jean-François…
