The 16-year-old teenager who admitted murdering his mother and sister in Haasrode, Leuven, on Saturday evening has been placed in the Everberg detention centre for juvenile offenders by the youth judge, Leuven public prosecutors said on Sunday.
"He explained his motive during his hearing, but it is so banal that it is not proportional to the acts committed," explained Sarah Callewaert, the spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office. "A more in-depth investigation will therefore be necessary."
The two victims were discovered on Friday morning after a fire in their home in Milsestraat in Haasrode, a section of the municipality of Oud-Heverlee in Flemish Brabant.
The public prosecutor's office immediately opened a murder investigation, as the victims had knife wounds all over their bodies. Initial findings also indicated that the fire was of criminal origin.
On Saturday evening, the young man confessed to stabbing his mother and sister and then setting fire to the house.
