2023-08-24 15:52:00
While the minister was celebrating his birthday at his home in mid-August, three of his guests were caught urinating on a parked police van nearby.
Belgian Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne is getting bad publicity at the moment. An investigation has been opened in the country following three guests at a birthday party at his home were caught urinating on a parked police van nearby, the court said.
The facts, which occurred on the night of August 14 to 15 in Kortrijk (North-West), while the minister was celebrating his 50th birthday with many guests, led the local police to file a complaint.
According to the newspaper The newspapaerthree tipsy men were filmed at the end of the night urinating on a van, integrated into a device aimed at protecting the minister, when they had just participated in the birthday party.
This led to a judicial investigation for “contempt” entrusted to the neighboring police area of Roeselare, said Tom Janssens, spokesman for the Kortrijk prosecutor’s office.
Since the minister received threats in 2022, which he said came from the drug trafficking community, his home in Kortrijk has been under increased police surveillance, these special measures including video surveillance.
Facts “unworthy of a Minister of Justice”
Vincent Van Quickenborne, who assured not to have witnessed the scene, said “obviously disapprove” of these facts.
“If the police have made findings, then they must be followed up,” added this Flemish liberal, in a reaction transmitted by his cabinet.
A police union, the SNPS, judged the facts “unworthy of a Minister of Justice”, in a press release wielding irony and entitled “the Watergate scandal”.
“It’s a punch once morest our police officers, a lack of respect for women and men in uniform”, also estimated the National Union of Police and Security Personnel (SNPS).
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