A gay couple in Antwerp (Berchem), J.P. Dewulf & W.Vermeulen, is being bullied for more than 6 years by a neighbouring islamic family. Although they both filed a judicial complaint, the bullying goes on.
The police has been proven to make a forged official reportnumber (Procès Verbal) in order to make it disappear. The couple has filed many other complaints against the police force, but none of these have been taken seriously.
The judicial system demonstrates an extreme apathy to start the proceedings of a lawsuit by first refusing (twice) to include the evidence of stalking, and by demanding that the original complaint from 2009 should be confirmed (up to 3 times). Furthermore it appears that the judicial system seems to have lost at one point a part of the file for 2 months.
After contacting a lot of politicians (even gay ones), none of them appeared to be really interested in the judicial and police apathy and neither in the judicial anomaly that even if the couple wins the lawsuit, the neighbours can't be forced to move out of their house. The fight against homophobic hate crime has to be more than words. The system has to work too. You can be the next victim of failing laws and of a judicial and police system that doesn't take a homophobic hate assault on you serious. Why do we need politicians if they do not guarantee a failsafe working system?
