Complaint to ex-cabinet chief Steve Stevaert after interview in Humo: Paul Butenaerts demands 800,000 euros (Hasselt)

That reports the newspaper The morning Sunday evening on her website and is confirmed to the Belga news agency by Master Sven Mary, the lawyer of Butenaerts.

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According to The morning Butenaerts would require compensation of 800,000 euros. Mary does not accept that amount on Sunday evening, but confirms that a summons has been sent.

« People must be kept at certain limits when they make statements about other people, » said Mary. « If they are harmful, incorrect and lying, responsibility must be given for the statements made. »

Mareels sketched a destructive picture of the Limburg group of the socialists. According to Mareels, within that department, under the leadership of the Provincial Secretary Paul Butenaerts, everything was ‘arranged’ in the time of Stevaert. « He (Butenaerts) used the socialist health insurance fund as an electoral instrument of the party, but what belongs for what: in exchange, Butenaerts demanded that the money from Limburg’s subsidy files came in the direction, » said Mareels.

Mareels himself takes The morning None of his statements back. « Everything I have said is true. And I can prove that too, » it sounds. The former head of cabinet was one of the interviewees in the four -part report ‘Steve Stevaert: the shadow of power’ On Canvas and VRT Max.