Interessante info over Jean Gol uit het Dutroux-dossier:
Jewish. One of the co-founders of the Parti des Réformes et des Libertés (PRL) in 1976. Chair PRL 1979-1981. Got to know Michel Nihoul in 1980, after an introduction from Andre Damseaux (already an associate of Michel Nihoul; head of the PRL and prime minster of Walloon).
October 21, 1996, PV 10.583, Hearing of Anne Bouty:
"Admits having asked (she and/or Nihoul) the intervention of the administrative and political authorities in order to help a foreigner in trouble stay here. (Gol and his collaborators, Godefrois from the Immigration Office)."
Jean Gol was a partouser at Les Atrebates in the early 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Nihoul and several police officers, businessmen and lawyers with close ties to child abuse.
2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 160, about some other visitors of the Dolo:
"... sales director of Philips, a director of Janssen Pharmaceutics (also J&J), an importer of champagne, a director of Frere-Bourgeois and a member of the Frere family, a director of Vittel-Perrier in Belgium... These individuals met here lawyers, the spouse of a Brussels examining magistrate, the chairman of the court of commerce, Claude Leroy... Jean Gol..."
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice 1981-1988. Director of the Institut Europeen pour la Paix et la Sécurité (IEPS), together with Cercle chair Brian Crozier, Cercle members Jacques Jonet and Count Hans Huyn, Generals Robert C. Richardson and Daniel O. Graham, and his PRL associate Willy DeClerq. Minister of Foreign Trade in 1985. Chairman PRL 1992-1995. In collaboration with Antoinette Spaak one of the architects of the PRL-FDF Federation in 1993. Died in 1995. Freemason.
Following is a rather vague story of Willy Claes being involved in a "lodge", which included among its members people tied to the Haemers Gang. Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as published on ISGP website), pp. 8, 9, 27:
"For over 8 years A.H. [an informant] was actively part of the "Lodge"... Eric H. [Haemers] also became a member of the lodge in that period... A.H. was contacted this weekend by a certain Lambiotte Robert.../... [sic] Here it is about one of the leaders of the lodge and he asked A.H. to keep quiet about all the things he knew. Otherwise it would cause an explosion... At some of the meetings at which A.H. was present, [Jean] Gol, [Willy] Leclerq, [Willy] Claes etc. were also present... E.H. would also belong to "the Lodge". He was introduced in 1983 by Roland Wilmart. He would have participated in several of the meetings. E.H. was surprised over the power and "protection" which goes out from this lodge. He is a friend of a certain lawyer, "Jakian:" (phonetic), who would be staff holder of the lawyers. Jakian is a leading figure within the lodge."
Died in 1995.
