Alain Decoedt is clerk head of the court in Bruges. “It is dangerous at times,” he says. “Ceilings that come down, we have seating halls that the magistrature no longer wants to use. If you look on the floor, the fungus comes out of the ground. The plants grow on the windowsill here. And above all, where the proofs and the lawyers come to study their file above 50 degrees. Accidents happen. “
Alain Decoedt has been working at the registry of the court in Bruges for almost 30 years, the secretariat. The building dates from 1985 and clearly had its best time.
“What are we doing? We place a cupboard that we no longer see where the fungus comes out. The wallpaper comes from the walls. What do you do with it? You place a cupboard. And so it is solved. But not really of course.”