Orange with 6Medias, published on Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 08:17
Two French friends spent five days in Spain in the company of a Belgian criminal who had been on the run for 17 days. They told the Parisian their mishap.
The story is not trivial.
Myriam, 22, and Yanis, 21, discovered they had been traveling around Spain for five days in the company of a criminal. Adrien Rompen, a Belgian man sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of his wife in 2017, did not return to his prison in Marche-en-Famenne (Belgium) after his leave on June 9, Le Parisien reports.
Their meeting took place on a beach in Tarragona last weekend. Victor, a Belgian in his forties, explains that he is going on a trip to Spain to learn the language. The three tourists will then spend five days together.
No phone or email
Sports activities and aperitifs follow each other every afternoon. According to the two friends, the killer is talkative and likes to brag. Until the day he slips because he was in prison. Myriam and Yanis are surprised that their holiday buddy only pays in cash. He also has no way of being contacted: no phone number or email address.
One day the Belgian blurts out his real first name: Adrien. After a quick Google search, the two young people discover that Adrien Rompen was convicted of strangling and fatally beating his wife Charlene Grosdent in 2017. They immediately call 112, the European emergency number. A few minutes later, the police arrive in Mont Blanc, Spain. The fugitive was then arrested. He is being repatriated to be reintegrated into a Belgian prison facility.