Jurgen Conings, who is armed with a rocket launcher and machinegun, has eluded hundreds of special forces and police officers who are searching for himDutch and German troops were on standby today to help Belgian security forces in a manhunt for a fugitive soldier who has won support in parts of the country after threatening to kill one of his country’s top scientists over coronavirus restrictions. Army units and police descended on a wooded national park near the border with the Netherlands on Friday but they were unable to find any sign of the elusive Corporal Jürgen Conings. SponsoredA search party made up of 120 troops, 60 police officers, a dozen civilian security agents and two dog teams — one trained in tracking live people, the other in finding corpses — scoured the area. Heavily armed Conings, a former shooting instructor, is thought to have gone to ground since

Source: The Times June 05, 2021 10:52 UTC