Posted on 03/24/2010 8:41:16 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
The crime victim, a businessman named only as Laurent, had been living in a suburb of Charleroi, in Belgium's depressed French-speaking southern region of Wallonia.
He moved north after a series of violent attacks and robberies on his family but was taken to a local court because he had not paid back a grant to renovate his house in 1998.
In 2006, his wife and children were threatened by armed raiders, who stormed his home at night and dragged him away in his pyjamas while his horrified family looked on.
He was later freed and dumped on a industrial estate as the thieves made off with another one of his cars, a Jaguar.
Geneviève Denisty, a Charleroi civil judge, told the businessman that he must pay back over £5,000 in renovation grants because he had behaved "unreasonably" in leaving the region.
"It is perhaps not sensible to draw attention to oneself by driving a Jaguar and living in a big house, making an ostentatious display of one's wealth in a poor and damaged region like Charleroi," said the judge.
[...]
The city has become notorious as the home of the paedophile serial killer, Marc Dutroux. Another Carolo, Muriel Degauque, became the world's first white, female suicide Islamist bomber when she blew herself up in Baghdad in 2005.
Its Left-wing council has become a byword for corruption in Belgium, losing two Socialist mayors to various scandals in the last two years
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I actually thought this would turn out to be a crime somewhere in the USA! I clicked on the article to see which state! Am I paranoid or prescient?
hey...redistribution ...remember?
Yeah, I’m afraid prescient will turn out to be the correct answer.
I thought the same thing when I saw the headline. Just goes to show that nothing would surprise us anymore. SAD.
Awful. Charleroi used to be a nice town. was a wonderful place 20 years ago, brought down by Socialist corruption and Muslim infiltration. Thankfully there is still the Flemish north. they’d better secede soon, before it is too late. ALL the tax revenue fo the corrupt Franch South comes from the productive Flemish north.
Now if someone attacked the judge would he say that he invited it by making stupid rulings from the bench?
Well, keeping in mind what some Russian emigrants have told me on New Orlean, you have good grounds to worry...
I am guessing that Muslim infiltration is the main reason. They will keep expanding, demanding their way and terrorizing others until they control.
Like any fire, this needs to be extinguished immediately upon discovery or it will spread and destroy even more. France has learned this lesson but I haven’t heard their response. Last I knew the Muslims were burning everything in sight and the police were told not to enter Muslim territory. Anyone know differently?
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