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A Belgian former prison director must himself behind bars because he has sexually abused detainees in exchange for a more favorable regime. The court in Turnhout deems the now retired Jef B. guilty of sexual assault in the prison of Wortel. He receives a prison sentence of four years, two of which are conditional.

The police in the vicinity of Hoogstraten after a wild pursuit aimed at the tires of car of a young British woman who had been run into them. The woman, who was in the car with two children aged two and thirteen, went off on Sunday when the police wanted to arrest her because she made a nervous impression.