Urologist Bo Coolsaet (81) was also sentenced by the Antwerp Court of Appeal to four years in prison, half of which was effective, for the assault and rape of a minor patient. There is a real chance that he will actually have to go to prison, explains his lawyer Kris Luyckx.
Belgian State convicted after Iranian with a wire coat was wrongly held at gunpoint in Brussels for hours
The Brussels court of first instance has condemned the Belgian state for the way it treated an Iranian who walked around the center of Brussels in the summer of 2016 with a coat full of threads. The man was conducting research into mobile phone radiation in the center for the University of Ghent,...
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Lawyer Walter Van Steenbrugge acquitted of defamation against René Stockman
The Ghent criminal court has acquitted lawyer Walter Van Steenbrugge for defamation against René Stockman, the superior general of the Catholic Congregation Brothers of Charity. The case revolved around the euthanasia process, where Van Steenbrugge wondered aloud whether the Brothers of Charity was putting pressure on the euthanasia case for assizes.
'We have been given that thorough sense of justice from home'
One has been hunting criminals for years, the other defends them. Yet Martin and Walter Van Steenbrugge were never diametrically opposed. But: “Had Martin colored outside the lines as a police officer, I would not have come for coffee with him.” De Morgen spoke with two brothers, connected by…
