Pyromaniac Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison After Arson Attack on Police Officer's Home in Zaventem

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The Brussels Criminal Court has sentenced a man in his forties to 14 years in prison for two counts of arson. The arsonist, who is not a novice, threw a firebomb at a police officer's home in Zaventem in 2022.

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A man of 40 years of age was sentenced on Thursday by the Brussels Correctional Court to 14 years' imprisonment, after having been found responsible for two voluntary fires. He set fire to a dwelling in Diegem in 2021 and, in 2022, threw an incendiary bomb at the house of a Brussels policeman in Zaventem. The court also ordered the immediate arrest of the individual. A fire object was launched in July 2022 on the front of the house of a Brussels…