The accumulation of misadventures that led to Jürgen Conings’ flight: how the bullied scrawny male retrained into a bodybuilder who grew increasingly angry at the world | Inland

Corona put his army missions on hold and, as an ardent Anderlecht supporter, kept him out of the stadium for months. And then the fitness center in his garden where he wanted to organize boot camps also had to be locked. All because of that “fucking government and virologists”. Tomorrow it will be one year ago that Jürgen Conings (46) stole a bag full of war guns from the barracks of Leopoldsburg for an attack. The country was in turmoil for five weeks, until the soldier from Dilsen-Stokkem was finally found dead. We spoke to those close to Conings about what happened before, during and after his raid. Today part 1: the accumulation of setbacks and blunders that led to the flight of Jürgen Conings.