✔️ 2022-09-03 12:46:17 – Paris/France.
Brussels, September 3. Belgian police arrested this Friday near Brussels the English scammer Robert Hendy-Freegard, who starred in a Netflix documentary series and who was wanted and captured after injuring two gendarmes, one of them seriously, during a check at his residence in central France at the end of August.
As Flemish public radio and television (VRT) reported on Saturday, after eight days of research, the police in East Flanders (northern Belgium) found and arrested the man on the E40 road in Grand-Bigard, a town near from Brussels.
“The traffic police recognized him from his vehicle, which was denounced for the events that took place in France. He was immediately arrested, ”said Gilles Blondeau, from the Hal-Vilvorde prosecution.
Robert Hendy-Freegard will appear this Saturday before an examining magistrate in Brussels, before the council chamber decides on his transfer to France.
Since the end of August, the French authorities have been looking for the Englishman Hendy-Freegard, 51, who served a sentence in his country between 2005 and 2009 for having defrauded more than a million pounds sterling, posing as a secret agent of the MI5.
Installed with his partner for seven years in the remote French town of Forêt Belleville, he knocked down two gendarmes with his Audi A3 in August while they participated in a health check-up at his home, inhabited by 26 Beagle dogs.
Hendy-Freegard is the protagonist of the series "Who's Pulling the Strings: On the Trail of the Biggest Imposters" (Netflix, 2022), in which filmmakers Sam Benstead and Gareth Johnson describe him as "a cruel con man who pretends to be a spy British" capable of "manipulating and robbing its victims, leaving families in ruins". EFE
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