Isolde Van den Eynde: “The West Flemish public prosecutor’s office is appealing for a traffic error, but in Brussels they look the other way for social fraud”

Guy Verhofstadt drives through the red light, receives no punishment because the court takes his “record” into account and in Anderlecht, OCMW fraud files are dismissed without the main suspects ever being interrogated. “In a democracy, the mere impression that the judiciary protects politicians is very damaging,” writes political journalist Isolde Van den Eynde about two cases that paint a disturbing picture.

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