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Kim De Gelder (1988) is the perpetrator of the Dendermonde nursery attack on January 23, 2009 in Dendermonde, Belgium.
Attack
On January 23, 2009 in Sint-Gillis-bij-Dendermonde, Dendermonde, Belgium Kim De Gelder entered the Fabeltjesland kindergarten through an open side door and began attacking the children with a knife before moving to another room killing 3 people and wounded 12 then escaped of the site on a bicycle until he was captured in the town of Lebbeke.
Sentence
On January 26, 2009, authorities named De Gelder as the prime suspect in another fourth murder, in which a 73-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her Beveren apartment.
on January 27 he admitted to the attacks and on March 22, 2013 he was sentenced to life in prison.
Victims
- Leon Garcia-Mannaert, an eight-month-old boy
- Corneel Vermeir, a nine-month-old boy
- Marita Blindeman, 54
- Elza van Raemdonck, 73