Benoît de Bonvoisin

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Baron Benoît Marie Ghislain Martin Marcel Patrice de Bonvoisin (born March 14, 1939 in Etterbeek ) is a Belgian businessman.

family

De Bonvoisin is the son of Pierre de Bonvoisin (1903-1982), president of the conglomerate Société générale de Belgique , and Elisabeth Galopin (1910-1998). The family comes from Verviers , where the forefathers held administrative positions. Pierre de Bonvoisin was accepted into the hereditary nobility with the title of baron in 1957. He chose Benevole et fortiter (German: friendly and strong ) as the motto .

Benoît de Bonvoisin is the great-grandson of Gérard Galopin (1849–1921), lawyer and rector of the University of Liège , and the grandson of Alexandre Galopin (1879–1944), governor of the Société Générale de Belgique . Benoît de Bonvoisin has two sisters and a brother and is unmarried himself. He is a graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

politics

De Bonvoisin worked as an advisor to the two-time Belgian Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants . He was treasurer of the Center Politique des Indépendants et des Cadres (CEPIC), the right wing of the Christian Social Party . Through the publishing house Cidep he is the editor of right-wing extremist journals and magazines, for example the Nouvelle Europe Magazine (NME).

Processes

After the fraudulent bankruptcy of Boomse Metaalwerke , commercial activities were prohibited by a court in 1984. In 1992, he was dismissed as an agent when parking meters were fraudulently obtained for the city of Liège. At the beginning of 1995, the death mask and the silver mold of Sophie Barat's hands were stolen during the demolition of the chapel of the Convent of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jette . These were found at de Bonvoisin. He was charged and sentenced in February 1996 by the Brussels Criminal Court to six months in prison and a fine of 1000 Belgian francs. In November 1996 he was charged with fraud, extortion, breach of trust and tax evasion and sentenced to five years in prison. However, he was acquitted by the Mons Court of Appeal on May 12, 2000 and the Belgian state paid him € 100,000 in compensation.

Other activities

De Bonvoisin was the founder of the Union européenne des classes moyennes . In addition to his political work for the CEPIC, de Bonvoisin was involved in the fight against corruption and - together with his contacts in the American government - communism in Zaire .

Controversy

From Albert Raes , head of the Belgian secret service, de Bonvoisin was nicknamed Black Baron . Raes named on May 19, 1981 in a meeting of a parliamentary committee of inquiry the contacts between the extreme right and some people from the CEPIC, the right wing of the PSC. Although his name was not mentioned, de Bonvoisin recognized himself in that description after the contents of the committee meeting leaked to him. He promptly filed a complaint. The result was a lawsuit lasting years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter De Bock: Extreem-right en de state . EPO, Berchem 1982, ISBN 90-6445-971-1 , pp. 135 .
  2. ↑ Vrijspraak voor Baron de Bonvoisin , De Tijd . May 13, 2000. 
  3. ↑ Main basse sur Bruxelles, Georges Timmerman, Éditions Aden, 1991, page 47 - L'affaire des parcmètres
personal data
SURNAME De Bonvoisin, Benoît
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Bonvoisin, Benoît Marie Ghislain Martin Marcel Patrice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian businessman
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Etterbeek