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Hundreds of special forces hunt anti-lockdown Rambo in Belgium: Missile launcher-toting soldier vows to 'fight to the death' against virologists who have 'taken everything away from us'
Hundreds of special forces soldiers have today joined the hunt for a heavily armed Belgian soldier who is on the run after threatening the country's top virologist and vowing to fight to the death against lockdown restrictions.
Trained sniper Corporal Jurgen Conings, 46, disappeared on Monday after threatening Marc Van Ranst, a leading academic who has advised the Belgian government on the coronavirus crisis and is vocal on social media.
The soldier is thought to be on the run in the Hoge Kempen forest after stealing four rocket launchers, a machine gun and a pistol from one of the barracks where he worked.
He left several notes, writing in one to his family that he 'could no longer live in a society where politicians and virologists have taken everything away from us.'
Conings, who has served in Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, has been dubbed 'Rambo' and warned that he 'would join the resistance and would not surrender.'
Some 250 police officers and soldiers were deployed to the Hoge Kempen National Park in the northeast near the Dutch border, with 50 more arriving on Thursday.
'The search continued throughout the night,' federal prosecutor spokesman Eric Van Duyse told AFP news agency.
Shots were heard as teams of heavily-armed officers entered the park, with armoured vehicles and helicopters on standby.
This followed the discovery nearby on Tuesday night of Conings' vehicle. The four missile launchers were inside, along with some munitions and Coning is also armed with an FN P90 machine gun.
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