Jürgen Conings International Manhunt (Update: Body found in woods) - Belgian Boogaloo

[inception_state]

Update: They found his body in the woods near where they first began searching, apparent cause of death is suicide by gunshot.

Summary:
Belgian far-right soldier leaves manifesto threatening COVID bureaucrats, steals rocket launchers and firearms from a military base and disappears into the woods, prompting a multi-nation manhunt. Thousands of soldiers and police searched for a couple weeks and could not locate Jurgen. He has now been on the run for close to a month without being caught, despite having an Interpol red notice. Basically this is a European Dorner situation.

Background:
Conings knows his shit (archive):

From the professional soldier’s curriculum vitae, a copy of which is in the editorial office of The last news turns out to be a sniper with years of combat experience in a war zone. He was there on missions in Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.

He apparently was investigated for posting some racist and otherwise objectionable content on social media, but was still employed by the Belgian military and had access to the barracks armory.

Timeline:
Monday May 17:

• Jürgen leaves a suicide note for his girlfriend, indicating that he's intending to carry out an attack and doesn't expect to survive. He specifically mentions Belgian defense minister Ludivine Dedonder and virologist Marc van Ranst.
• Jürgen raids the barracks armory under the pretense of organizing a military exercise, taking a four rocket launchers, a P90, a Five-seveN pistol, ammo, and a bulletproof vest.
• Jürgen's girlfriend contacts the police, initiating the manhunt.

Tuesday May 18:

• Car found abandoned in Dilserbos (Limburg province) with the rocket launchers inside, and booby-trapped with a grenade (archive). Massive manhunt proceeds with hundreds of police and military.
• Virologist Marc van Ranst and his close family placed in a safehouse under police protection.

Wednesday May 19:

• Hoge Kempen National Park (archive) becomes the focus of the manhunt. The park and highway are closed to visitors and combed through by police, but this is slow as the park is ~12,500 hectares and has over 400 km of hiking trails.

Thursday May 20:

• Search continues, they add more police and military, now over 1,000 with special forces on standby. Some nearby mosques decide to temporarily close (archive).

Friday May 21:

• They find a tent, it isn't Jürgen's.

Saturday May 22:

• Houses of Jürgen's associates are raided (archive) - "“The farm owners woke up with guns and lasers pointed at them. They estimate that there were thirty to forty soldiers, including some with German and Dutch insignia.” Jürgen is not found.

Sunday May 23:

• Pro-Jürgen march by protestors, around 150 people show up.
• Interpol Red Notice (archive) issued for Jürgen
• 

Monday May 24/ Tuesday May 25:

• Police raids continue, Pro-Jürgen Facebook page with 50k members gets shut down (archive). Apparently they mistook a random fisherman for Jürgen, but I can't hunt down a source for this.

More updates per @Real Gay Autist

Some updates from the Flemish media [source], though nothing exciting:

• 29-30 May 2021: A search was carried out in Stalken, Zutendaal.
• 30 May 2021: Police officers from the Federal Police and the Special Forces again searched Dilser Forest in the Hoge Kempen National Park near Lanklaar (the forest near where his vehicle was found) with the assistance of helicopters and drones.
• 1 June 2021: Belgian media report that, before he went AWOL, JC withdrew the maximum daily cash allowance from his account, 3,000 Euros.
• 3 June 2021: Another search in Lanklaar, this time on an industrial estate and some residential areas. The Belgian Ministry of Defence starts proceedings to formally remove JC from his rank and position. By far the most exciting thing that happens is that a guy shows his asscrack during a live report the story.

June 20:

• Body found by cyclist in the park where they were searching for weeks, apparent cause of death is suicide by gunshot.

June 25:

• Family wants an autopsy, judge says no and orders cremation to go ahead (found by @Lemmingwise). This is kinda fucked, isn't burial arrangements typically decided by the next of kin?

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Why does nothing rhyme with Jürgen?​

Jürgen's Spergin'
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You're welcome.

 

[inception_state]

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Jürgen's Spergin'​

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You're welcome.

I was thinking of something more along the lines of "Can't corner the Dorner".

 

[Blamo]

This guy must be a Metal Gear Solid addict.

 

[Toolbox]

I wonder why a guy like this would've mentally broken? It's almost like a ton of politicians have been forcing people to stay indoors with people they probably hate for the past year?

 

[DumbDude42]

• Jürgen leaves a suicide note for his girlfriend, indicating that he's intending to carry out an attack and doesn't expect to survive. He specifically mentions Belgian defense minister Ludivine Dedonder and virologist Marc van Ranst.
• Jürgen raids the barracks armory under the pretense of organizing a military exercise, taking a four rocket launchers, a P90, a Five-seveN pistol, ammo, and a bulletproof vest.
• Jürgen's girlfriend contacts the police, initiating the manhunt.

>trust gf with secret plans
>immediately rats him out to the cops

the dude is blackpilled to the point where he's willing to go out in a suicidal attack agains the government, but still commits the biggest possible opsec fuckup by telling a roastie about it? you'd think he'd have stopped trusting anybody a long time ago
sad but also hilarious in a tragic way

 

[inception_state]

>trust gf with secret plans
>immediately rats him out to the cops

the dude is blackpilled to the point where he's willing to go out in a suicidal attack agains the government, but still commits the biggest possible opsec fuckup possible by telling a roastie about it
sad but also hilarious in a tragic way

I guess it's just part of being blackpilled to the point where you don't give a fuck. Yet he was still competent enough to steal four rocket launchers, and dedicated enough to spend over a week on the run? Maybe he just offed himself in the woods somewhere and this is him having a posthumous laugh at wasting half the EU's military and police resources.

 

[Lone MacReady]

>trust gf with secret plans
>immediately rats him out to the cops

the dude is blackpilled to the point where he's willing to go out in a suicidal attack agains the government, but still commits the biggest possible opsec fuckup possible by telling a roastie about it? you'd think he'd have stopped trusting anybody a long time ago
sad but also hilarious in a tragic way

If there's one thing you never do, it's tell a woman anything about money or anything else important.

 

[Wayneright]

I was thinking of something more along the lines of "Can't corner the Dorner".

"No Spurnin' Jürgen"
"Can't Zerg the Jürgen"
"Around Jürgen, Less (((Berg))in'"

 

[Bonesjones]

I guess it's just part of being blackpilled to the point where you don't give a fuck. Yet he was still competent enough to steal four rocket launchers, and dedicated enough to spend over a week on the run? Maybe he just offed himself in the woods somewhere and this is him having a posthumous laugh at wasting half the EU's military and police resources.

He stole rocket launchers and didn't use them, he definitely killed himself and decided to waste resources.

 

[Troonos]

Cheering for this hero. I hope he succeeds in his mission.

 

[inception_state]

He stole rocket launchers and didn't use them, he definitely killed himself and decided to waste resources.

It's definitely possible, but at the same time if he was making a run for it through the woods, he couldn't exactly carry four rocket launchers with him. If he's still alive it's the smart move to lay low, eventually they're going to have to call off the search or at least significantly reduce the manpower.

I'd consider the fact that they haven't found a body yet (despite dogs and grid searching) to be decent evidence against that theory as well.

At least we're getting some decent memes out of this.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

If this guy pulls a big one, I will consider Belgium a real country

 

[Jan_Hus]

Today i learned that belgium has an army.

 

[Wayneright]

It's definitely possible, but at the same time if he was making a run for it through the woods, he couldn't exactly carry four rocket launchers with him. If he's still alive it's the smart move to lay low, eventually they're going to have to call off the search or at least significantly reduce the manpower.

The rocket launchers were recovered in an abandoned vehicle. Apparently in between readings of Siege our would-be revolutionary also came across one of 4chan's several dozen pipe bomb tutorials, coming to the realization he doesn't need expensive military ordinance to blow up a building.

 

[inception_state]

The rocket launchers were recovered in an abandoned vehicle. Apparently in between readings of Siege our would-be revolutionary also came across one of 4chan's several dozen pipe bomb tutorials, coming to the realization he doesn't need expensive military ordinance to blow up a building.

Isn't that what I said? My guess through was that he was forced to ditch his vehicle to throw off pursuit, and couldn't realistically transport rocket launchers on foot across rough terrain (they seem quite awkward and heavy to carry), so he left them in the booby trapped car.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Posted this in the News thread but hopefully Jürgen Conings is an avid fan of Rambo:

 

[Fentanyl Floyd]

Summary:
Belgian far-right soldier leaves manifesto threatening COVID bureaucrats, steals rocket launchers and firearms from a military base and disappears into the woods, prompting a multi-nation manhunt. Thousands of soldiers and police have been searching for a week and still have not located Jurgen. Basically this is a European Dorner situation.

Background:
Conings knows his shit (archive):


He apparently was investigated for posting some racist and otherwise objectionable content on social media, but was still employed by the Belgian military and had access to the barracks armory.

Timeline:
Monday May 17:

• Jürgen leaves a suicide note for his girlfriend, indicating that he's intending to carry out an attack and doesn't expect to survive. He specifically mentions Belgian defense minister Ludivine Dedonder and virologist Marc van Ranst.
• Jürgen raids the barracks armory under the pretense of organizing a military exercise, taking a four rocket launchers, a P90, a Five-seveN pistol, ammo, and a bulletproof vest.
• Jürgen's girlfriend contacts the police, initiating the manhunt.

Tuesday:

• Car found abandoned in Dilserbos (Limburg province) with the rocket launchers inside, and booby-trapped with a grenade (archive). Massive manhunt proceeds with hundreds of police and military.
• Virologist Marc van Ranst and his close family placed in a safehouse under police protection.

Wednesday:

• Hoge Kempen National Park (archive) becomes the focus of the manhunt. The park and highway are closed to visitors and combed through by police, but this is slow as the park is ~12,500 hectares and has over 400 km of hiking trails.

Thursday:

• Search continues, they add more police and military, now over 1,000 with special forces on standby. Some nearby mosques decide to temporarily close (archive).

Friday:

• They find a tent, it isn't Jürgen's.

Saturday:

• Houses of Jürgen's associates are raided (archive) - "“The farm owners woke up with guns and lasers pointed at them. They estimate that there were thirty to forty soldiers, including some with German and Dutch insignia.” Jürgen is not found.

Sunday:

• Pro-Jürgen march by protestors, around 150 people show up.

Current state of affairs:

• International manhunt continues, with at least Dutch, Belgian, and German involvement.

God speed

 

[Some Badger]

I hope he succeeds in whatever he's doing (in Minecraft), solely because I need a good laugh now that the whole shit-flinging contest in Gaza is petering out.

 

[Menotaur]