Ex-manager (50) danscafé testifies about evictions: Six months in hell, without any choice

Izegem Five years, he has been silent as a tomb, but now a Belgian-Albanian gang referred to the criminal court wants Dominique Stove (50) from Izegem talk. “The spiral of extortion and violence in which my partner and I with our danscafé the end of the border on the unbelievable,” he says. “I have nothing to do with evictions of dancing to do”, responds Christophe Decoene (53) from Menen, one of the suspects.

Without any experience in the hospitality industry started Dominique Stove, the managing director of an IT company, and Kurt Vuylsteke, in 2014 the danscafé Beau’Bar, on the border of Ingelmunster and Meulebeke. “The response was overwhelming, even for someone a foot had binnengezet in Beau " Bar”, starts Dominique's story. “A few days before the big moment rang suddenly the phone. Christophe Decoene was on the line. I knew the man, in the past we have now and then against each other in football. He was very pleasant, wished us success with the case. What we wondered: he knew perfectly who we were, and could even tell how much rent we had to pay. A strange experience that was. He invited us home. Out of sympathy, sounded it, but also to warn of what night happen in cases like ours. But we could sleep on both ears: he would help us, for free even.”

Two doormen

Stove and Vuylsteke, felt little for cooperation. But before she could refuse, there were two porters at the door of Beau’Bar. “The first month there was no problem,” says Stove. “But then it started. My partner wanted a friend, a Moroccan still had access to the case. That upsets Decoene and males are not. When my partner insisted, he was outside - in the sight of dozens of customers - afgerost by Decoene. Once it was clear who's in control. From that moment on, the situation only became worse.”

“There would be thirty Chechens with little beautiful intentions come”, let Decoene suddenly know. Therefore, had there suddenly six in the place of two door supervisors positioned. Cost: 370 euro per person for a weekend. Decoene limited over the course of time to each week to come by and the money is yours. In the us, but also in dozens of other dance halls. We realized that we are in a vicious circle had landed with heavy financial consequences.”