Bruxelles Scènes de Crimes 2: Passions and Impulses

Follow our guide-storyteller in the picturesque streets of the city, where walls have ears and stones keep secrets. Crimes of passion, heinous murders, spectacular escape,... the news items we are going to tell you have shaken public opinion, and have marked Brussels forever! This immersive visit plunges you into the depths of the human soul of 19th-century Brussels, between chilling stories and murderous impulses. Each case will be contextualized in its time. We will portray the characters and we will try to see together what pushed them to act. We tell you everything, in strict respect of the facts: The cases themselves, the police investigations, the trials... And the sometimes cruel sentences! - The Vandermissen case (1886): When passion and honor push a respectable deputy to commit the worst... - Scandal at "Dame Carpette" (1898): Push the door of a brothel in the 19th century - The not-so-perfect crime of the Peltzer brothers (1882) - The Jean-Jacques Vandenbosche case, a lover ready for anything (1842) - François Besse: When the one they called "the Eel" escapes under the eyes of the entire Brussels police (1979) Sensitive souls refrain: this route will make you shiver, reflect… and will give you a very different look at the city and its history. Will you dare to discover what Brussels hides in the darkest corners of its history?