OUR OPINION. “It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. That principle is still very topical, as the Olivier Vandecasteele case proves.”

Politics is a dirty game sometimes. Especially on the foreign stage. It is to the credit of Prime Minister De Croo (Open Vld) that he dares to get his hands dirty to free an innocent compatriot. It is not a clean choice to have to exchange a terrorist for Olivier Vandecasteele. It was the only correct one.

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