Bende van Nijvel

About this project

This is an open knowledge base documenting the Bende van Nijvel case, also known as the Tueurs du Brabant — a series of violent attacks in Belgium during the 1980s that remains formally unsolved. The aim is to gather scattered facts, people, locations, and events into a single connected graph, so that relationships which are hard to see in a linear text become visible. Each node represents an entity — a person, a place, an event — and the connections between them represent documented facts. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the project lets you explore the case as a web of interlinked information and draw your own conclusions from how the pieces relate.

The database is built collaboratively. Anyone visiting the site can propose a change: adding a new node, suggesting a relationship between existing entities, or flagging something that looks incorrect. These suggestions are not published immediately. Instead, they enter a review queue where an administrator checks them against sources before they become part of the public graph. This keeps the project open to contributions while maintaining a standard for what gets accepted. The goal is a balance between community input and factual reliability — broad participation, but with a filter that protects the integrity of the data.

This project is a work in progress and makes no claim to be complete or definitive. Some connections are well documented; others are tentative and marked as such. Nothing here should be read as an accusation against any named individual, and unverified claims are treated as exactly that. If you notice an error, have a source to contribute, or want to suggest a correction, please use the suggestion feature or get in touch via the contact address in the footer. The value of a project like this grows with careful, sourced contributions — accuracy matters more than volume.