BOCHUM - The Limburg criminal police think they have incriminating phone taps and data linking Ronnie S., prime suspect in the case of the notorious murder of Andy de Heus (30), to the killing and disappearance of the market vendor from Echt. This is confirmed by police sources surrounding the investigation. S. was questioned about this for the first time yesterday in Germany by investigators from our country.

Ron S. (48) of Sittard, an acquaintance of De Heus, has been detained here for some time for large-scale drug smuggling. For this he was recently given a year-long prison sentence. According to insiders within the investigative services, during the first interrogation, which took place at the Bochum police station, S. was, among other things, presented with a number of phone taps.

S. would have been one of the last people to see Andy de Heus in the flesh, before he disappeared without a trace from the face of the earth on December 2012. It is now clear that Ronnie S. and Andy de Heus had a link in the past with the Porta Isola bungalow park in Stevensweert where the pair allegedly had hemp cages. In that park, the detectives already conducted an extensive investigation in December 2015.

Suspect remains silent

The murder suspect Limburger invoked his right to remain silent during the hour-long interrogation, according to a source around the investigative interrogation team, which was assisted by representatives of the German judiciary. Hub Haenen, spokesman for the police in Limburg, would only confirm yesterday that S. "has indeed been heard as a suspect in the De Heus murder case.

Serge Weening, attorney for Ronnie S., is brief in his comments: "The only thing I want to say about it is that my client wants to be extradited to the Netherlands as soon as possible." However, Ronnie S. will first have to answer to our southern neighbors for a drug-related crime he allegedly committed in Aachen. The body of Andy de Heus was found next to a pond in Stevensweert in February of this year.

In addition to Ronnie S., a number of other people have been named as suspects in the case, but they have since been released.

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