gent · BE
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A social worker employed by the municipal welfare service in Gent was killed on the evening of 13 August 2025 during a round of home visits. When he failed to arrive at his second appointment, police went to the first address he had called at, a social housing unit in the Kikvorsstraat in the Nieuw Gent district, and found him there. He had been killed with violence. He was 56. The resident of the flat, a man who had lived in Belgium for years and had a psychiatric history, had left the scene. He was arrested hours later on the other side of the city and has been held since on suspicion of murder. A reconstruction was carried out at the scene in May 2026. What drove the killing remains unclear. The case prompted a wave of public reaction in Gent and beyond, including a silent vigil the day after the killing and a memorial gathering in Nieuw Gent attended by around a thousand people. It also led welfare services across Flanders to accelerate existing plans on staff safety, including emergency call buttons, redesigned premises with better escape routes, and checklists for home visits.
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- incident_date corrected from the article publication date 2026-08-13 to 2025-08-13, the date of the killing. The cited article is a one-year-anniversary feature, not a report of a fresh incident. Placeholder coordinates [0, 0] replaced with the Gent city centroid [51.0543, 3.7174]. Victim age_range and sex filled from the article.