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The Man City player was in Saudi Arabi when the break-in happened, local media said (Picture: PA)

The 70-acre mansion of Kevin De Bruyne, a Belgium Manchester City star, was been reportedly ransacked by burglars on Saturday.

De Bruyne, 32, his wife Michele Lacroix and their three children were not at the property in Bolderberg during the break-in.

Police believe the burglary took place between 4pm and 9pm and saw them use a stepladder to get inside.

Lacroix walked in to discover the mansion had been trashed, the Dutch newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) reported.

Various items were swiped from the secluded luxury estate, the paper said citing the public prosecution office, but what was taken remains unclear.

Forensic experts are combing the scene as police hope to chat with neighbours and look over CCTV.

‘The investigation into what exactly happened is still ongoing,’ the prosecutor’s office said, adding: ‘It is therefore not yet clear who the perpetrators are.’

De Bruyne is currently in Saudi Arabia for the Club World Cup, playing as a midfielder for the Premier League club Man City.

But he had to sit out for his team’s match on Saturday due to a hamstring injury, watching on from the stands at the Etihad Stadium. 

City is set to play Japan’s Urawa Reds in the semi-final tomorrow – it remains unclear whether De Bruyne will be on the pitch with them.

He said over the weekend: ‘It’s going really well. I had surgery – it was a big injury. But we’re getting closer – closer to the new year.’

De Bruyne and Lacroix, an internet personality, bought the mansion in 2015.

Taking four years to build, the home has a pool, hot tub and basketball court.

HLN said the family uses the villa more as a holiday home as they instead spend most of their time at their other mansion in Wilmslow, a village about 10 miles from Manchester.

Made of white stone, the massive property sits on Zandstraat, a street which runs into the De Wijers nature reserve about 3.5 miles east of Lummen.

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Italian cardinal Angelo Becciu was found guilty of financial crimes.

Liam Brown, 25, was caught with his trousers down and his hands on either side of a calf after the farmer had installed surveillance equipment.

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Jon Venebles (R) has lost his bid for freedom after being jailed for possession on child abuse images (Picture: PA)

James Bulger’s evil killer Jon Venables will stay in prison after his bid for parole was rejected.

Venebles faced an appeal to determine if he could be released from jail after he was imprisoned for possessing images of child abuse.

But the Parole Board rejected his bid, with the panel ruling that it was ‘not satisfied that release at this point would be safe for the protection of the public’.

Now 41, Venebles and pal Robert Thompson shocked the nation in 1993 when they adbucted, tortured and murdered two-year-old James when they were just ten years old.

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Sony Josaphat is accused of fatally shooting his ex-wife and her new pastor husband in front of his daughter he shared with the victim.

Letby was given 14 whole-life orders in August.

The woman awoke to find a man’s arm across her waist.

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Expat Albert Douglas was strangled while attempting to call his family.

Aaron Hughes was jailed for a year after admitting the fraud.

Dr. Amy Cohen is accused of leaving antisemitic messages for the retiree before allegedly setting her house on fire.

A married father-of-two, Patrick Kenney Jr, accidentally stabbed himself with a knife attached to something around his neck.

Tiara Allen is accused of shaking her boyfriend’s infant boy so hard that he died.

He arrived with partner Mercy Malick.

‘I turned away to go to the toilet behind a tree. When I turned back around I saw X stabbing Brianna. Brianna was on the floor.’

‘It is disgraceful that whilst in such a trusted role he sent sexually explicit material to a vulnerable teenager.’

The offences were allegedly committed against three women and took place between October 31 and November 2.

Detectives have released footage allegedly showing robbers ripping a man’s watch off his wrist after pulling him and his wife to the ground.

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