Police raid on Belgian church called unlawful Aug. 17, 2010

[Shellac]

Police raid on Belgian church called unlawful
Aug. 17, 2010
By John A. Dick

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — In two surprise moves Aug. 13, the Brussels attorney general’s office declared that the June 24 police raid on the offices of the Catholic archbishop in Mechelen were unlawful and that any evidence that may have been unearthed during the raid is inadmissible in court. The same day, the Brussels court of prosecution issued a judgment that all confiscated documents and computers had to be returned.
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[Redratfish]

I am unaware of what makes a search legal/illegal in Beligium, but after speaking to my cousin who is a cop, it doesn’t surprise me. It is very easy to miss something in the paperwork for the raid to go forward. The article wasn’t very clear about what went wrong. Anyone have any more information?

 

[Dale_M]

Color me skeptical, but it seems the announcement seems calculated to fly under the radar of news organizations:
NCR article:

The attorney general’s declaration and decision of the court were made public not by the court but by Fernand Keuleneer, a lawyer representing the Archdiocese of Brussels-Mechelen and Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the retired archbishop.

My guess is that there won’t be much news coverage about this decision.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

Excellent news. There could be no other just decision.

 

[pnewton]

Color me skeptical, but it seems the announcement seems calculated to fly under the radar of news organizations:

My guess is that there won’t be much news coverage about this decision.

No doubt about that. Two months latter and the raid has not produced a single arrest for a single crime. Now we find out that the raid was not legal. This does nothing but support my initial contention that this action was anticatholic persecution to the very core.