The East Flanders public prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday that a mediation procedure had been started in the case surrounding Vooruit chairman Conner Rousseau. The public prosecutor’s office now wants Rousseau to follow sessions with a therapist “on the impact of words and language use” and to visit the Dossin barracks in Mechelen.
But for Abderrahim Lahlali, lawyer for the Brussels non-profit organization Kham who filed a criminal complaint against Conner Rousseau, that is not enough. He informed the editors of ‘De Morgen’. He emphasizes that his clients can also impose conditions. They demand, among other things, that he participate in a guided visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Lahlahi also tells ‘De Morgen’ that it is not certain that Rousseau will no longer be prosecuted for this. “If the mediation process is not satisfactory for us, that can still happen.” If the procedure fails, the public prosecutor’s office must indeed decide again on the further course of the file. Rousseau could still be prosecuted and have the case mentioned on his criminal record.