36-year-old woman in Kortrijk found lifeless in her bed, partner taken for questioning (Kortrijk)

« This morning around 10.30 am the resident of the house called his neighbor. He asked for help because his partner was lifeless in bed, » says a local resident. « Half an hour later it was full of police cars and an ambulance here. » They didn’t want to say anything at the police services and they referred to the public prosecutor’s office. The death is currently being treated as a suspicious death. The victim was a 36-year-old woman, her partner is a man in the thirty according to local residents.

Young couple came to live here at the end of 2024

« The couple came to live here in the autumn of 2024, » says a neighbor. « They didn’t come out that much, they had no children in the home. » A neighbor who lives a little further on knows more. « We saw the couple pass with the scooter occasionally. The man once trusted us that they came to live here to flee Kortrijk. But I don’t know why. A few months ago he asked my husband a lift to Kortrijk. My husband took him. »

« When we put some furniture outside that we wanted to get rid of, the same man also came to ask to ask if he could take them with him, » says the neighbor. « They didn’t have it wide. We never had problems with them here in the area. Except for a noisy party occasionally, but yes, who doesn’t. »

Court keeps it suspicious death

The neighbors have never noticed anything of problems between the couple. « In fact, nobody has an idea what exactly happened in that house. »

It is the task of the public prosecutor to find out the precise circumstances and cause of death. « But now it is too early for that, » says Griet Deprest of the public prosecutor of West Flanders. Possibly it is a violent deceased, but it could just as well be a natural death. Normally more will be communicated about this tomorrow.