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Only in Belgium…
10/16/2009 :: On 23 July, three of Belgium’s most dangerous criminals, with the very “Belgian” names of Mohammed Johry, Abdelhad Kahjary Mulloul and Ashraf Sekkaki escaped from the prison of Bruges by… boarding a helicopter, which an accomplice had landed in the courtyard of the prison.
Barely a week later, on 4 August, three others of Belgium’s most dangerous criminals, with the equally “Belgian” names of Oussama Trimini Langeri, Youssef Oulad Has Chaib and Abdelhalim Akil, escaped with the help of two heavily armed accomplices who liberated them… while standing before the judge in Belgium’s main courthouse, the Palais de Justice in Brussels.
Between the two events, on 28 July, two other (minor) criminals, Vitezslav Mracek and Dave Annemans, escaped from the prison of Merksplas with a ladder which a contractor, who was doing renovation works in the prison, had left standing against the wall.
Deja-vu
Though some of these criminals have meanwhile been recaptured – most of them by… the Moroccan police in Morocco – the escapes indicate that Belgium is still unable to keep its most dangerous criminals behind bars. While in the Netherlands only one single prisoner escaped in the first eight months of 2009, Belgium already had 39 escapes.
Spectacular escapes from prison are not uncommon in Belgium. In 2007, there were two escapes involving helicopters, one from Ittre prison, the other from Lantin prison. In 2006, 28 prisoners escaped from Dendermonde prison in one single breakout. The figures for 2008 were 4 for the Netherlands, 22 for Belgium.
Following the escapes from the Brussels Palais de Justice, the security personnel at the “Palace of Justice” went on strike, while Belgium’s Justice Minister, Stefaan De Clerck, who was also the Justice Minister when the notorious Walloon pedophile and child murderer Marc Dutroux escaped from a courthouse in 1998, declared that the Belgian state lacks the means to guarantee security in its dilapidated prisons and court houses.
Destructive
The Parti Socialiste (PS), Wallonia’s main party, is to blame for the judicial shambles in Belgium. The PS vetoes all attempts to remedy the situation. The PS blames society as the cause of criminality, while the criminals are regarded as victims. The Vlaams Belang has been saying for many years that as long as the PS remains in the government, nothing will change. This was confirmed by Marc Verwilghen, a former Minister of Justice, in a recent interview in the weekly Humo (Sept. 8, 2009).
Mr. Verwilghen told Humo that all his reform proposals were blocked by a high-ranking civil servant at the ministry, who used to work for PS leader Elio Di Rupo. “A number of PS politicians was and is being investigated by the judiciary: perhaps that explains a lot,” Mr. Verwilghen told Humo, thereby indicating that this is the reason why the PS wants to destroy the Belgian justice system.
The Vlaams Belang wants to break the destructive hold of the PS over Flanders by cutting the latter loose from Wallonia. “Our people deserve a proper judicial system,” says Bart Laeremans, a lawyer and the VB’s parliamentary spokesman for justice. “The state has the obligation to protect the people against criminals. That is why we pay taxes. Not to fill the pockets of the corrupt Walloon Socialists.”
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