He was actively wanted in France for an attempted murder of two gendarmes at the end of August, after having fled a control in his dog breeding in Creuse. Robert Hendy-Freegard was arrested in Belgium on Friday, federal police said. This 51-year-old crook, already convicted in Great Britain, was arrested by Belgian police shortly before 5 p.m. in Grand-Bigard, near Brussels, on the he E40 motorway (which connects the Belgian capital to the coast), told AFP a spokesperson for the federal police, confirming information from the French channel BFMTV. He was arrested by a patrol from the East Flanders road police who “were able to locate his car based on the license plate recognition cameras”, explained the spokesperson. Robert Hendy-Freegard must appear on Saturday before an investigating judge responsible for executing the European arrest warrant issued against him, she said.Attempted murder of two gendarmesOn August 25, two French gendarmes were “ severely injured” during a check by the local authorities responsible for inspecting the operating conditions in a dog farm in Vidaillat, in the Creuse. While the gendarmes asked Robert Hendy-Freegard, one of the site managers, to move to the nearest brigade, the latter started his vehicle, an Audi A3, then hit the soldiers before fleeing. . One of the gendarmes suffers from an open fracture at the level of the nose. They were prescribed 21 and six days of ITT. On August 30, the Guéret prosecution announced the opening of a judicial investigation for “attempted homicide” on the two gendarmes. Netflix star Robert Hendy-Freegard is far from being an unknown since he is the hero of a documentary (“The Puppetmaster: lessons of manipulation”) broadcast on Netflix since the beginning of the year and a fiction film, “Rogue Agent”, with James Norton and Gemma Arterton, also on Netflix. a million pounds, notably by posing as a spy for MI5, the British secret service. He was released in 2009 after an appeals court overturned the kidnapping conviction.