2023-08-24 09:32:00
Should the Minister of Justice be incriminated following the three drunken guests who urinated on a police suit during his birthday party on August 14? For the SNPS police union, the answer is yes. As a reminder, according to the Flemish press, the guests urinated on a police suit responsible for monitoring Minister Van Quickenborne. The prosecution confirms that contrary to what was initially announced, the minister was not present at the time of the events.
Vincent Van Quickenborne guests urinate on police jumpsuit: ‘A drunken joke that doesn’t make us laugh at all’
Despite this, Thierry Bellin, secretary general of the police union SNPS, believes that his responsibility is tainted. “I want to express our disgust at this incident. Police have been protecting the minister for months once morest a planned kidnapping and at the same time his relatives are urinating on a police vehicle. This is simply unacceptable. His resignation is the least of things, especially since he has already lied before the Chamber concerning Minister Verlinden’s sectoral agreement with the police when he was co-chairman of the negotiation committee and was therefore aware of this okay. It’s starting to do a lot and if he has a little honor, he has to step aside”, he draws.
“For decades, the police suit has been considered the emanation of the police profession. The symbol par excellence. The accelerator is automatically released at the sight of a suit, it is anchored in our culture. Automatically, disbelief is replaced by outrage when another combi is molested in a dark slum. But this time we are not in a dark slum. No, we are in Kortrijk, the hometown of our Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne. The Minister celebrates his fiftieth birthday and invites many people around him to celebrate this happy day. A police suit is always parked in front of his residence to deter criminals who would like to kidnap our John Wayne or him do harm. After all, according to the media, our crime fighter is the best cop in the country at fighting all forms of crime.”
“Regardless of the investigation into this scandal, the representatives of the police personnel consider it to be an outrageous act, unworthy of our democratic rule of law. Some would say that these are people who are overwhelmed by events and committing a stupid act. We argue that this is a mockery of our police, not a rant but rather a punch at our police,” he continued. “An act of disrespect for the ladies and gentlemen in uniform who do their best every day to keep the streets of Kortrijk and, by extension, the whole country clean.”
The cabinet of the elected Open Vld informs that the minister himself was not present during the events and that he “obviously strongly disapproves” of this behavior. “If the police have made findings, they must be followed up,” he said on Wednesday evening.
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