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Debie prison term suspended
Diana West informed me this evening that former Antwerp police superintendant Bart Debie has been released from prison, where he began serving a one-year term on Wednesday for racism because of a comment or comments made five years ago by one of his officers about Turkish immigrants, and will be given some kind of house arrest/electronic monitoring arrangement to complete his sentence. This is very good news. I guess the kind authorities of Belgium realized that in their five-year-long persecution of this devoted civil servant they had finally jumped the shark. (I wonder what the French equivalent of “jump the shark” might be.) So, as a result of the authorities’ sudden onrush of humanity, Debie, instead of having been fired from his position as police superintendent, forced off the police force, forced off his seat on the Antwerp city council to which he was subsequently elected as a member of Vlaams Belang, stripped of his political and civil rights so that he can’t vote or run for any office, fined 30,000 euros, and sentenced to prison for a year, he has been fired from his position as police superintendent, forced off the police force, forced off his seat on the Antwerp city council to which he was subsequently elected as a member of Vlaams Belang, stripped of his political and civil rights so that he can’t vote or run for any office, fined 30,000 euros … and confined to his home for a year.
Clearly, in the EU, the quality of mercy is not strained. Email entry |