jambes · BE
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A man was beaten and left for dead at a house in Jambes, a sub-municipality of Namur, on 24 July 2025. On 20 August 2026 the court in Namur convicted his neighbour, then 49, of attempted murder and sentenced him to 17 years in prison. According to the case heard at trial, the defendant invited the victim into his home, saying he wanted to discuss something with him. Once the victim was inside, he was severely beaten. The defendant then called the emergency services himself, telling the operator that he thought the man was dying. Responders found the victim unconscious in a pool of blood. The victim survived his injuries but has remained in a semi-vegetative state since the attack, unable to communicate or to eat unaided. The defendant suspected the victim of having sexually abused his partner's six-year-old son. Belgian reporting notes that the victim had been convicted in 2020 of abusing a five-year-old child and given a 37-month suspended sentence, that two further complaints of abuse of minors were made against him in the summer of 2025, and that an investigation into the alleged abuse of the defendant's stepson was under way at the time of the attack. The case attracted considerable attention in and beyond the courtroom.
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- incident_date corrected from 2026-08-20, the date of the verdict, to 2025-07-24, the date of the attack as stated by the source. city corrected from "namen" to "jambes", the sub-municipality of Namur where the attack took place, and placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Jambes centroid. crime_category corrected from homicide to attempted_homicide: the victim survived and the conviction is for poging tot moord. judicial_status set to convicted from the trial court judgment. victim.sex set to M. slug updated to match.