 Lhermitte and Moqadem married on September 22 , 1990 , and moved into the apartment of Dr. Michel Schaar , a physician , with whom Moqadem was residing . Schaar had befriended Moqadem 's family in Morocco in the 1980s and served as the young man 's host in Belgium , and Moqadem considered Schaar as an adoptive father . While Moqadem worked at a convenience store , it was Schaar that was the primary financial provider . Lhermitte did not object to living with Schaar in his apartment as she thought it would be on a temporary basis . 
