Political judgments are recognizable to serious and persistent violations of human rights, on issues that expose the shortcomings of the state. The death penalty is provided by prohibition on health care and incentive to commit suicide during illegal detention.

Political death penalty in the Belgian fashion

Brussels, May 13, 2010, by Jacqueline de Croÿ.

The NGO Morkhoven was founded by Marcel Vervloesem in 1988, when he discovered the Antwerp branch of a multinational that produced films of child pornography.

The Ministry of Justice choose to ignore the issue, lest the revelation of police corruption causes a national scandal.

In 1996, ten percent of the Belgian people protested in Brussels against the "protection" of another branch of the same network: Dutroux, a paedocriminal recidivist on parole, had kidnapped nine girls, four of which have not survived. Two years later, Marcel Vervloesem found the centre of the network in Zandvoort, Holland, from where he came back with 88'539 unique specimens of production. He discovered, in 2001, the existence of an employment contract that binds the networks Zandvoort and Dutroux.

Judges can not contradict the doctors, because they lack the training necessary to judge the medical dossiers. Belgian judges have contradicted nine doctors to declare Marcel Vervloesem guilty of rapes that he was physically unable to execute. A cardiologist testified that his diabetes would have obliged him to take Viagra, but that his heart was in such a state that Viagra would have killed him. Nine doctors, including the expert appointed by justice, opposed to his imprisonment, in reason of a health condition that would not allow him to survive detention conditions. His medical dossier exposed a cancer and three metastases; a cardiac deficiency which had requested three open-heart operations; a renal deficiency which had requested three surgical operations; a deficiency of the pancreas which had requested two surgical operations and a diabetes that made him dependent on insulin.

That man was sentenced to 4 years prison, with the intention to kill him in prison by deprivation of health care, before the European Court of the Human Rights may have the time to sentence Belgium for the judicial sabotage of the Zandvoort case. Marcel Vervloesem has lodged his appeal to the Court of Strasburg on August 8, 2008, asking compensation for his daughter and his NGO for his unlawful death penalty. He has then knocked on the door of the prison on September 5, 2008, to begin a hunger and thirst strike, with an aim of shortening his sufferings and die for what he has lived: in asking the application of the constitutional laws of the victims and witnesses of the paedocriminal networks.

The hunger and thirst strike normally kills within three days. The clinical signs announcing an imminent death by dehydration are a loss of 10% of the weight. The ministry of Justice has intervened from Brussels at the fifth day of the hunger and thirst strike, when he had lost 10% of his weight and was becoming blind; to send away the ambulance called by the doctor of the prison, and prohibit the urgent hospitalization prescribed.

He was transferred to the medical centre of the Bruges prison, where he stopped the thirst strike, but carried on the hunger strike. He was then imprisoned in a medical isolation cell without sink, where he was prohibited any other beverage than as boiling water or the stinking water. Boiling water on an empty stomach causes acute pain, aggravates dehydration, which causes blockage of the kidneys, the destabilization of the blood glucose and the blood-pressure.

His best friends were banned from visitation during eighteen days, despite written requests to the Department of Justice and the Royal Palace prior to incarceration, in order to convince him to live. They were forbidden to offer him mineral water, although the prison sells bottles from vending machines in its corridors. He accepted to eat again on September 30, 2008.

The justice department opposed to the hydration protocol during eight days, until Marcel Vervloesem fell into a diabetic coma. The ministry has then forbidden the dialysis necessary to unlock his kidneys during 50 days, even when the water retention destroyed two of his heart valves and caused a leukaemia. The hospitalization was authorized only when he did not have any more than 24 heart beat per minute, only for the reanimation, but not for the cardiac catheterization recommended by the cardiologist, or for the dialysis.

Marcel Vervloesem was to be transferred in the cell of man who protested by spreading his own excrements everywhere, the day before the cardiac catheterization. He was brought back in this cell with an internal bleeding, on the very same day of this surgical operation, which had revealed the necessity for two open-heart operations, to prevent endangering his life.

Justice department will oppose again to the hospitalization, until Marcel Vervloesem fell into a coma. Three surgical operations will then be necessary, at 24 hours interval each: the first to treat his kidneys, the second to cauterize the internal bleeding and the third one to insert a tube which will be necessary for the transfusion of three litres blood. He will be dialysed, but until he got back only 60% of his renal capacities.

The eleven post-surgery days were ensured in the cell of the man spreading his excrements everywhere, until Marcel Vervloesem contracted gangrene. This gangrene was also left without useful treatment, until he awoke in a blood bath, a foot shackled to a hospital bed. Two surgical operations will be necessary in emergency, one to cauterize the haemorrhage, the other to chop off the flesh and bones with gangrene. Marcel Vervloesem was banned from his visiting rights and from his rights of patients, maintained eight days shackled and under an electric light 24 hours a day, until he had no other solution than to ask to go back to the prison to be allowed to sleep.

The miraculous survival of Marcel Vervloesem created the problem of dissemination of the information about the treatment reserved to the prisoners in Belgium. The cruelty of directors and psychosocial services, coupled to the lack of health care, produces 24 times more suicides than in American prisons.

The Doctor of Justice negotiated the cauterizations of the cardiac valves against the withdrawal from Internet, of an article of the foundation Princesses de Croÿ et Massimo Lancellotti, concerning the first five emergency hospitalizations which were made in secret from his family, thus in violation of the regulation. The deal was concluded in exchange of two hospitalizations at three weeks interval per recommended operation, without shackles, or light 24 hours a day and without revalidation limit.

The Council of State had to free Marcel Vervloesem from a sanction, which deprived him of all medication, including of insulin during four days, and sent him a week in solitary confinement, banned from visits, telephone and to go to the mass, because the NGOs refused to censor other articles.

The justice department will not respect its share of the deal on the two open heart surgeries. They were object of 131 days delaying tactics and limited to only one surgery, thus in an aim to kill him, since the cardiologists believed he had not enough chances of survival to take the risk. He has woken up with the grins of death, a foot chained and shackled to the hospital bed. He was sent back to the prison of Bruges after only ten days, in a section reserved to the most difficult prisoners in Belgium, thus with the heaviest detention conditions.

Stefaan De Clerck, the Minister of Justice, had offered him an assisted suicide with a pill to cause a heart attack. Two prison doctors advised him a suicide in 10 days, by stopping his insulin and continuing to eat normally. He did it. The Minister of Justice accepted to grant him "more humane detention conditions" after 42 days without insulin, only because of a report of the French television.

The tribunal of the application of the sentences extended his detention of one year beyond the first date he had been promised to be released under electronic monitoring, but at a time the ministry expected him to die within a few days. The judgment is based on a document that had been retained out of the dossier by the Ministry of Justice, which presumes a decision dictated by the department, thus in a violation of the separation of capacities.

The day Marcel Vervloesem definitively gave-up suicide; he was put in isolation regime, naked and banned from furniture, which obliged him to write his mail on the floor. Prison guards were revolted and brought him a table, a chair and some clothes. The ministry began to doubt managing to kill this man, without chopping his head off. The Psychosocial services then uttered violent threats, demanding that he confesses to crimes, of which even the courts were forced to exonerate him, so as to destroy his application to the European Court of Human Rights. He refused, despite the reprisals, which were to prohibit the hospitalisation requested by the doctor for hypoglycaemia and dialysis, from where again, a serious death threat.

Parole Marcel Vervloesem is now considered, but with a ban on contact with the press or with the NGOs defending Human Rights and to go back to his researches on paedophile networks.