Ex-gangster Vanhamel has pv in his pants for ‘illegal demolition’ chapel

Lummen, The municipality of Lummen has a pv up for the demolition of the chapel, to the Priesterse Heidestraat in Linkhout. Ex-gangster Danny Vanhamel demolished chapel at the beginning of this month, in a fit of anger. He went to the monument body with his jackhammer because the church no land wanted to sell.

The chapel stood, however, on the privégrond of Dany Vanhamel itself. He has the chapel is always well maintained. It was a tribute to resistance fighters Isidoor Bruers and Albert Loddewijckx. They died on that spot when at the end of the Second world War, their shelter was struck by a flying bomb. Also two children of two and eleven years of age came to the tragic bombing. The building was not officially recognized as a monument. “But that does not mean that the chapel, of course, a heritage and aesthetic value,” vessels of Spatial Planning Wim Vangeel (CD&V). “And you still have a an environmental licence is required. It is clear then Vanhamel who had not when he came to the chapel to body went. And so we have the police report up.” Vanhamel itself holds the leg stiff. He is angry because he has a piece of land next to his plot which is the property of the Church should not buy it. To say it was as verbally agreed. In return, he has already a lap behind land sold to the municipality to football fields to be able to lay. When at the beginning of this month the sale of an adjacent parcel to Vanhamel them, demolished him in one fit of anger the chapel.

Reconstruction

“of course, We have no knowledge of any oral agreements that Vanhamel makes with the Church,” responds ships Vangeel. “However, the man has a parcel license to us run for the parcels, which he already has. Therein we had him earlier this year asked the conscious chapel to move. Not because we danger of smoking, but because of that chapel there now once unhappy was on his premises. Only he will have that condition movement of the chapel clearly not been able to fulfill, after this brutal demolition. That is why we are now in if condition ‘reconstruction of the chapel.” Vanhamel itself indicates that the municipality of ‘her word’ and refuses to accept the reconstruction.