Belgium handed over to French authorities on Monday the British fraudster at the center of a Netflix documentary who was arrested in early September while on the run after attacking two gendarmes in central France, a source close to the case told AFP. Robert Handy-Freegard, also known as David Handy, “left the Brussels prison where he was being held on Monday afternoon“, this source elaborated.
Robert Handy-Freegard, famous in Great Britain, is the central subject of the documentary The Puppetmaster. Handling Lessons: and feature film RogueAgent:, both streaming on the Netflix platform. He should have been handed over to the Limoges prosecutor’s office, where an investigation had begun.attempted murderA few days after this attack on August 25, the investigating judge was entrusted.
Robert Handy-Frigard, targeted by a European Arrest Warrant (EMAE), is suspected of deliberately running down two French gendarmes with his car during an inspection of his dog kennel in Vidaillat (Cruz) on August 25. When the gendarmes asked him to go to the nearest brigade, the suspect started his car and then hit the soldiers. The 51-year-old British man, who fled after the attack, was arrested on September 2 in Grand-Bigard, near Brussels.
He contested his extradition in Belgian courts, but all avenues of appeal have been exhausted. In 2005, he was sentenced to life in prison in his country for kidnapping, cheating, stealing students and women, from whom he extorted more than a million pounds, in particular for posing as a spy for MI5, the British domestic intelligence service. . He was released in 2009 after an appeals court overturned his kidnapping conviction.
Source: Le Figaro
