The area surrounding the apartment complex is fenced and cordoned off with black tarpaulin. Detectives in white suits walk to and from the house. A police spokeswoman could not comment on the investigation.
The boy was found dead on Saturday morning behind a burned-out house a stone’s throw from the apartment where the suspect lived. Gino was last seen on a soccer field in Kerkrade on Wednesday evening. He stayed in that city with an older sister, because his mother in Maastricht is ill and could not take care of the boy.
After he went missing, hundreds of people in Kerkrade and Landgraaf went looking for the boy.