Alexis Deswaef is the lawyer for Nicolas Ullens de Schooten, a former State Security agent. The latter accused Minister Didier Reynders, the new European commissioner, and Jean-Claude Fontinoy, his right-hand man, of corruption. He claims that he was muzzled from 2015. The lawyer explains why, in his eyes, the Ullens "case" is a state scandal.
Lawyer Alexis Deswaef surprised some of his colleagues, including in his very "human rights" Brussels firm, when he agreed to defend the man who accuses Didier Reynders and Jean-Claude Fontinoy: Nicolas Ullens de Schooten , a former State Security agent. Deswaef, “the lawyer for undocumented migrants”, has just been elected vice-president of the FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights Leagues), after having presided over the Belgian league. Why is he embarking on such an adventure? How to prove such allegations?
Quick reminder of the sequence: in April 2019, Nicolas Ullens balance what he has to the police. Indications, names – that of Reynders and Fontinoy – which recur in the files he follows from his position as an agent of the intelligence services. He then evokes the Kazakhgate, the affair of the “Libyan funds”, the move of the federal police to a building sold by the State to a private firm or even the construction of the Belgian embassy in Kinshasa. Faced with the police, agent Ullens claims to have been sidelined in August 2015, right when a member of the Reynders cabinet was appointed No. 3 of the Sûreté. Serious charges.
Reynders is a political heavyweight. The Belgian government chose him to represent our country at the European Commission. Is it for (all) that that the Brussels public prosecutor closes the file without duty of investigation, last September?
A "machination"