Belgian businessman and criminal, he killed 18-year-old Nicolas Vander Stukken, who was walking with some friends in a wood near Wavre on 13 June 1999, with a bullet to the head. Although regularly frequented by walkers, the wood was private property. Despite various testimonies attesting that Pierre Riga would have reloaded his weapon (a buckshot) after the fatal blow and less than a week after the fact, the council chamber of Nivelles released him, the judge finding him guilty of the the charge of assault and battery with no intention of killing. Read less