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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Belgian television triggered an electroshock with "Bye Bye Belgium"
On December 13th 2006, francophone Belgian public channel RTBF broadcast a very realistic programme staging Belgian partition. Roland Planchar believes this fiction launched a real debate in Belgium. "If we are still referring to 'Bye Bye Belgium', even a year later, it is because this caricature, as all caricatures, is close to reality. The public tv channel broke a taboo by cheerfully shatterig the kingdom, by dumping Albert II, and by showing a gruesome Flemmish community. This electroshock has fostered numerous comments on the country's future, and on what should be done for a better mutual understanding. If ever some people do wish Belgium's end, the RTBF did not invent it. It just had the guts to shout it out, that's all. But it's always easy to shoot the messenger..."
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The judicial system put to the test
The police have lost trace of the extreme-left Turkish militant Ferhiye Erdal. On probation for the past few years, she did not show up on Tuesday, February 28 at the court in Bruges that sentenced her to four years in prison for membership in a terrorist organisation. "One would think that it has become good form to cast aspersion on the Belgian civil intelligence service [la Sûreté]," notes the editorial writer Roland Planchar, who looks for the true culprit behind this embarrassing situation. "It is not really the fault of the civil intelligence authorities, the police, the courts. But rather of a democratic system concerned about everyone's rights. That is what makes it so noble. Except that, in this case, it has been flat-out duped. Oh how she must have laughed, Mrs. Erdal, as she weighed up her possible conviction against her plan to take flight."
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