Junior Kabunda

Junior Pashi Kabunda (born 1991), known as The Monster of Brussels, is a Belgian criminal and serial killer. After participating in the 2006 robbery-murder of Israeli pianist Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, he went on to murder his daughter and her great-grandmother three years later. For his latter crimes, he was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 25 years.

Early life Little is known about Kabunda's childhood. Born in the capital to Congolese parents in 1991, he was described as an unhappy boy who often clashed with those closest to him. As an adolescent, he joined a criminal gang, as well as dealing and using drugs in the area.

On 29 August 2006, together with 22-year-old Laurent Oniemba, the two men were walking around Brussels in the middle of the night when they chanced upon Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, who was returning from a concert in Enghien, Hainaut. When they noticed that he was entering his Honda Civic, Oniemba and Kabunda attacked him, beating Rawitz-Castel into unconsciousness and dragging his body to a nearby basement. When he temporarily came back to his senses, the elderly man asked what he had done, before being beaten again and succumbing to his injuries. After the deed was done, the two killers stole his car and sped off. On 20 December 2010, the Brussels court of assizes found him guilty of double murder, murder and attempted homicide, giving Kabunda a life imprisonment sentence plus 25 years.