Laurette Onkelinx: How Can We Trust Her?
(Max Vries)
On 2 July 2004, towards the end of the Dutroux mega-trial, Laurette
Onkelinx stated to La Libre Belgique, "Belgium has shown the image of
a country that goes the distance to find the truth."
Wrong and out of place as it is, considering the number of unsolved
cases, which have bookmarked the last two decades of Belgium (the
murder of Socialist leader Andr=E9 Cools, the Brabant Murders and the
Dutroux case, to name a few), this statement has outraged those who
want to know the truth, but are served lies.
Can we expect otherwise from Laurette Onkelinx whose former husband,
Abb=E8s Guenned, was arrested for drug trafficking and whose current
husband, lawyer Marc Uyttendaele, has performed in a number of
controversial, high profile cases?
For example, Freddy Thielemans, burgomaster of Brussels who has been
the target of numerous complaints and judiciary investigations,
including one for his involvement in a messy sexual case involving
minors in 1987 and 1988 (the Eburons school case). Represented by
Uyttendaele, Thielemans got off the hook.
The Trussnach case was doubtlessly, Uyttendaele's cause c=E9l=E8bre. Elio
Di Rupo, the chairman of the Francophone Socialist Party (PS), was
suspected of having had sex with an under-aged male. The case created
a short, but nonetheless violent wave of media. Di Rupo got off the
hook and Uyttendaele obtained Di Rupo's eternal support and doors,
hitherto closed to Uyttendaele, opened wide.
R=E9gina Louf, a surviving pedophilia victim, claiming to have witnessed
the murder of Christine Van Hees - better known as the
"champignionni=E8re case" - which was never solved. Louf's testimony
revealed corruption involving the highest levels of the Belgian
Government, that the only "solution" to prevent a scandal of
internationally proportions was to discredit Regina Louf on as many
channels as possible, including media. Socialist parliamentarian
Claude Eerdekens had publicly insulted R=E9gina Louf. She sued him.
Uyttendaele represented Claude Eerdekens.
Around the same time, the anti-pedophilia movements that came in the
wake of the White March in 1997 in protest of pedophilia scandals were
labeled "white totalitarianism" by Uyttendaele.
To top it off, in 1996, Uyttendaele represented Laurette Onkelinx's
then-husband Abb=E8s Guenned in connection with a 1996 international
arrest warrant issued on Guenned by Morocco for drug trafficking and
criminal association. Today, Guenned is an adviser in the Strategic
Cell of the Minister of Justice Laurette Onkelinx.
Can we ever trust the statements much less the actions of a Socialist
Minister of Justice, who used to be married to a drug trafficker,
currently one of her ministerial advisors, and who is now married to
an attorney, who represented Socialist figureheads in an effort to
cover up or prevent political scandals?
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