In recent weeks, the media outings of Ignacio de la Serna, Attorney General of Mons and also current President of the College of Attorneys General have become more and more numerous. And more and more critical, especially towards the political world. In question: the files which pile up without being able to be treated by the federal judicial police which lack, he denounces, cruelly of means.
A fight once morest organized crime that he considers urgent to prevent society from being “gangrené by the mafia”. Urgent to the point of having recently challenged, in an unusual step, the deputies before the combined committees of Justice and the Interior of the Chamber.
Mr. de la Serna will leave the head of the general prosecutor’s office in Mons in a few days. On June 2, he will take an oath before the Court of Cassation, the highest court in the country, whose role is to judge the legality of judicial decisions. He will join the second chamber, the one that deals with criminal cases.
Move to place Poelaert at the beginning of June
Ignacio de la Serna became public prosecutor of Mons in 2014. During his mandate, he will twice chair the College of Prosecutors, the body which brings together the 5 public prosecutors of the country. He is also currently the President of the College, a position that he will logically also have to leave.
A few days before moving to the Brussels Courthouse, Ignacio de la Serna received us in Mons. The opportunity for him to take stock once once more of the state of criminal policy in Belgium. And to make some suggestions to the political world.
Could it be out of weariness that he quit his job? “Absolutely not”, assures the magistrate who explains himself in an exclusive interview granted to La Libre and to read in the Saturday edition.