A manhunt to locate a heavily armed soldier has been launched by the Belgian police, considering it an extremely serious threat to the country. According to the Belgian authorities, this is Jürgen Konings, an army trainer with an extreme right-wing ideology and completely unorthodox views on the coronavirus pandemic and its treatment.
In the past, he has allegedly threatened infectious disease specialist Mark Van Ranst, who led the Belgian state to respond to the unprecedented pandemic situation. The scientist is considered a possible target of a possible strike of the far-right military, with the Belgian authorities having transported him and his family to a safe location.
At least 350 police officers, assisted by some military personnel, have been called in to search for Koenigs in a national park near the Dutch border, with some reports of six shots or explosives being fired in the area.
As for the heavy weaponry carried by the Belgian army officer, he managed to secure it due to his ability to access specific barracks. This has obviously raised many questions about why a military man known for his far-right positions has such easy access to the arsenal of the Belgian Armed Forces. According to some reports, a simple statement that he needed the weapons for training was enough to get him out of the military base.The threat posed by Koenigs is extremely high according to the Belgian authorities, who rate it with four, the highest score in the scale of terrorist threats of the Belgian state, referring to a “potentially extremely violent extremist”. According to the Belgian authorities, it is not excluded that he plans to carry out attacks on public buildings or target specific people. He has explicitly stated his intentions in some letters, in which he states that he is ready for a fight to the death with the police, as “he can no longer live in a society where politicians and infectious disease specialists have taken everything away from us. ».
