A month after the event, a new article was published in a Belgian newspaper, stating that the detectives still had not achieved any progress in the case.

The group that brought the case, Copiepresse, manages copyright issues for more than one dozen Belgian newspapers, most published in French.

It centers on roughly 170 articles that he wrote for two Belgian newspapers between 1940 and 1942.

"We don't have and we don't want to have a monopoly on what Poland is," he told a Belgian newspaper.

He subsequently took up writing columns in Belgian newspapers.

Little is known of his early years, although his older brother, Bernard, told a Belgian newspaper this week that he had been a gifted child.

Lefevere was accused of doping by a Belgian newspaper.

The German newspaper story made no clear reference to the corpses as human, however the Belgian newspaper did.

Belgian newspapers said the cause was lung cancer.

However, Belgian newspapers reported an immediate widespread Belgian outrage.