2023-09-04 16:18:08
Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) is said to be visible in footage from police surveillance cameras set up in his street, hours following some of those invited to his birthday party urinated on a combi of police parked in front of the house. These facts date back to last month. This is what the VRT affirms on the basis of various sources.
It was August 14, the Minister of Justice was throwing a party for his fiftieth birthday. This took place at his home. It was on this occasion that three guests went to a police suit parked near the house and two of them urinated on the vehicle.
The facts were made public on August 23, when the prosecution opened an investigation. The police suit was part of a surveillance and protection device put in place since the Minister of Justice was the subject of a terrorist threat.
At that time, the cabinet of the elected Open Vld had communicated that the minister himself was not present at the time of the events and that he strongly disapproved of this behavior.
According to the VRT, the analysis of the images of the surveillance cameras would have made it possible to isolate images on which Minister Van Quickenborne is visible, a few hours following the facts.
According to the sequence of events, as described by the VRT, people would have urinated for the first time at 8:39 p.m., a second time at 10:05 p.m., a third time at 12:02 a.m.
According to the VRT, it was at four in the morning that the minister in turn left the house, accompanied by one of his guests. “Apparently they both drank a lot“, writes the VRT on its site. According to the Flemish public service media, the minister would have leaned back, pretended to urinate, looked at a mobile phone while laughing. The minister then, like his guests, approached the combi to open the door.
The police unions reacted to the VRT. On the side of the CSC (ACV), Joery Dehaes asks that the images be made public. Carlo Medo at the NSPV believes that “everyone must take responsibility and draw conclusions” if the facts described occurred in this way.
The prosecution informed the Flemish media that the investigation was still ongoing and that it was still necessary to identify certain people visible in the images. These people will be questioned before possibly being prosecuted.
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