Brussels Correspondent - A sharp contrast incident on Sunday 16 January, a judge at the guards and the warden of the prison of Saint-Gilles, Brussels. The case resulted in the arrest of the director and two staff members. Wim De Troy J. investigating drug trafficking and wanted to interview a "mule", that a smuggler who swallowed pellets of drugs to try to evade controls.Demanding to penetrate with his personal vehicle in the school premises, the magistrate has been argued that access was, for reasons of security, reserved for vans, which are subject to due diligence. After an argument, the magistrate ordered the police officers accompanying him to make three arrests.
He said that staff was trying to obstruct his investigation. In the evening, Mr. De Troy called the federal police to the airport of Zaventem, where the manager had been transferred for questioning: the staff in the prison of anger threatened to prevent the judge to leave. The leaders of the prison were finally able to return to Saint-Gilles 21 hours.
Informed of this incident very unusual, the Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck, evoked behavior "excessive" the judge, who would, he said, violates safety rules. "I will not stop there," said the minister, adding that he would call an "appropriate response" to the hierarchy of the court in Brussels.
A spokesman of the latter has declined comment. The staff of Saint-Gilles and Forest, another prison in Brussels, spoke "unprecedented" in the hands of a magistrate. "He was guilty of a blatant form of abuse of power," said the Flemish Christian union ACV. The police union believes that Mr.
De Sypol Troy has jeopardized the surveillance of the facility. The magistrate has made known to the general public by another spectacular operation, "Chalice," about cases of pedophilia within the church in Belgium. It was last October, ordered searches of the archdiocese of Malines-Brussels, at the home of Bishop Gottfried Danneels, former head of the church in Belgium, and the Cathedral of St.
Rombaut of Mechelen, where thought he documents had been hidden in a vault. Jean-Pierre Stroobants
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