A momentous act of violence on the Limpertsberg shocked Luxembourg on January 27, 2026. A 27-year-old man from Belgium is said to have attacked two women in a residential building at the end of January – a 35-year-old French woman and a 36-year-old Luxembourg woman. The French woman, an employee of a real estate agency, died. The Luxembourg woman, a resident of the house, was seriously injured. Since the end of January, however, the incident had become quiet.
On Monday, the Luxembourg public prosecutor’s office will inform about the status of the investigation in a press release. Since their last communication at the end of January, additional investigations have been carried out and the arrested person has been questioned again. Your statements are currently being examined, writes the public prosecutor’s press office.
In addition, Luxembourg has sent several requests for international legal assistance to foreign authorities. These are crucial for the further course of the investigation and the development of the case. The Luxembourg authorities are partly dependent on answers from abroad in order to continue the process.
No “special or pre-existing relationship”
Several reports are currently being prepared, particularly psychiatric and psychological ones. The public prosecutor’s office hopes this will provide a better understanding of the circumstances and context of the crime. How long the reports take depends on the complexity of the case and the investigations. An exact duration cannot currently be determined.
According to current information, there was no “special or pre-existing relationship between the accused and the victims.”
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the man had made an appointment with his future victim about a possible property rental. The judiciary had charged the suspect with murder, manslaughter, attempted murder and intentional bodily harm. The presumption of innocence applies.
In custody
The judiciary was already open last week daily newspaper-Inquiry informed that the man from Belgium is still in custody in the Uerschterhaff correctional facility. By the way, a handover to the neighboring country is currently not an issue. “Such a decision could only become relevant after a court ruling,” explains the public prosecutor’s press office.
A possible surrender would then be examined as part of the execution of a sentence and would fall under the jurisdiction of the “Service de l’exécution des peines” of the Public Prosecutor General’s Office. According to the judiciary, this question does not yet arise at the current stage of the proceedings.
