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1996–1997. Country. Belgium. Date apprehended. Unapprehended. The Butcher of Mons is a media name given to an unidentified serial killer who committed five murders between January 1996 and July 1997 in or near the Belgian city of Mons. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The name was chosen because of the highly precise dismemberment of the victims' bodies. [ 2]
Mons-en-Barœul ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃s ɑ̃ baʁœl]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. [ 3] It is a suburb of the city of Lille, and is adjacent to it on the northeast. The name Mons-en-Barœul means mount in the Barœul, the city is built on a slight hill; the Barœul was a former territory (see also Marcq-en ...
The exterior of the museum. / 50.44997°N 3.95694°E / 50.44997; 3.95694. Mons Memorial Museum ( MMM) is a museum located in Mons, Hainaut Province in Belgium focusing on the history of the military history of the region in World War I and World War II. Formerly known as the Museum of Military History of Mons ( French: Musée d ...
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British Army attempted to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advancing German 1st ...
Mons(French:[mɔ̃s]ⓘ; Germanand Dutch: Bergen, Dutch pronunciation:[ˈbɛrɣə(n)]ⓘ; Walloonand Picard: Mont) is a cityand municipalityof Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IVof Hainautin the 12th century. The population grew quickly, trade flourished, and ...
Bouchez was born in Frameries on 23 March 1986 to modest, self-employed parents. [1] His grandparents were soldiers and mine workers originally from Italy. [2] He grew up in Colfontaine and Quaregnon, and attended l’École des Cannoniers in Mons from 1992 to 1998 and Collège Saint Stanislas in Mons for his secondary studies, where he graduated in 2004.
Collège Saint-Stanislas is a mixed Catholic secondary school in Mons, Belgium. It was founded in 1851 by the Jesuits. It is located on Rue des Dominicains in the centre of Mons. Despite some disruption during the two world wars, the college has continued to have classes over the entire course of its history.
Marin Boucher. Marin Boucher (1587 or 1589–1671), was a pioneer of early New France and one of the most prolific ancestors of French Canada, being the ancestor of most of the Bouchers of North America, particularly in the Province of Quebec, Northern New Brunswick, Ontario and Western Canada. Estimates of the number of families in Canada and ...