Court proceedings have begun against the stepson of a baroness and art collector, who lived in Verbier in the canton of Valais, after the 70-year-old woman was shot dead in Belgium last Wednesday.
The man handed himself into police the day after the shooting saying that he had killed his stepmother in a ‘family conflict’.
Myriam Ullens de Schooten was murdered in the suburbs of Brussels on March 29th in what appears to have been a dispute over inheritance.
The Baroness was married to Baron Guy Ullens de Schooten, aged 88, a billionaire industrialist from one of Belgium’s richest families.
The Baron’s son, Nicolas Ullens de Schooten, aged 58 and a former agent of the Belgian State Security, is said to have shot his stepmother while she was sitting beside his father in a car.
The Baron is in hospital after being hit in the leg by one of the bullets.
The Baron and Baroness have lived in Verbier for around 20 years.
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