Philippe Moureaux

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Philippe Moureaux (12 April 1939 – 15 December 2018

His first government post was a Minister of the Interior and Institutional Reform in the government of Wilfried Martens (Martens III) in 1980. Moureaux's name was attached to the loi contre le racisme et la xénophobie (Law against Racism and Xenophobia) of 30 July 1981 as he was then serving as Minister of Justice.

Resigning from the Federal Government in 1993, Moureaux's coalition defeated the incumbent mayor of Molenbeek

However, Moureaux's attempts at revitalizing the municipality were not successful. An example was the withdrawal of BBDO in June 2011 from the town. In an open letter addressed to Moureaux, ten employees of this American advertising agency cited over 150 attacks on their staff by locals as principal reason for their departure.^[2] As a result, serious questions have been raised about governance, security, and the administration of Mayor Moureaux.^[3]

Honours

• 3 December 1987 : Commander in the Order of Leopold.
• 19 May 1995 : Knight Grand cross in the Order of Leopold II.^[4]

Select bibliography

• Les comptes d'une société charbonnière à la fin de l'Ancien Régime (La société de Redemont à Haine-St-Pierre - La Hestre). Brussels, Palais des Académies, 1969. 248 p., illustrated, (Commission Royale d'Histoire).

References

External links

Media related to Philippe Moureaux at Wikimedia Commons

• New York Times article on role of Phillipe Moureaux in Molenbeeck radicalization