Death of Sébastien Courtoy, the criminal lawyer of all excesses

One of the best-known lawyers of the Brussels Bar, Me Sébastien Courtoy, died on Monday evening. In 2019, Le Soir had drawn his portrait during the trial of the attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels, when he defended the terrorist Medhi Nemmouche.

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Journalist at the service of society

By Marc Metdepenningen

Published on 02/21/2023 at 10:58
Reading time: 6 mins

Un assistant boxing referee at the Nemmouche trial would undoubtedly have counted as many (if not more) uppercuts taken by Me Sébastien Courtoy as by his client, who had taken refuge in his corner from where he kept muttering for 9 weeks, his “right to silence” – “DAS”, an acronym he intended to enter into the Wikipedia encyclopedia, as he had told French investigators.

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