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    A Case for Tintin?

    Something is rotten in Belgium

    Police carried out raids in seven countries Wednesday as Belgian prosecutors targeted the country's biggest football clubs as part of an investigation into fraud and match-fixing.
    A total of 220 police officers carried out 44 house searches across Belgium as well as in France, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia, Belgian prosecutors said.

    "A great number of persons have been deprived of their liberty and taken in for a thorough interrogation," said a statement from investigators.

    Federal prosecutors told AFP that the arrests included well-known football agent Mogi Bayat, the former manager of Sporting Charleroi, who had been arrested in his home.

    Bayat, a 44-year-old Belgian-Iranian, was the main target of the probe, Belgian media reports said, along with another agent and clubs with which they did business.

    Club Brugge coach Ivan Leko, whose team is playing in the Champion's League, was also arrested on Wednesday, a source close to the investigation said.

    The headquarters of Club Brugge, Standard Liege, Anderlecht and KRC Genk, the current leader of the Belgian Premier League, were searched in the operation, the source added.

    #2
    We complain a lot in Ireland about how messed up we are in so many ways but i've always had a strong suspicion that in a lot of respects we can't hold a candle to Belgium.

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      #3
      "A great number of persons have been deprived of their liberty and taken in for a thorough interrogation," said a statement from investigators.
      That must have been delivered with an evil cackle. Surely.

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        #4
        And a twist of the moustache.

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          #5
          A twirl, surely – it's more villainous. Twisting the moustache is just what Poirot does to his to keep the ends neat, and he's not that sort of Belgian.

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            #6
            I'm imagining 'knowing' sideways glances as heads disappear partially into upturned collars at this point...

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              #7
              Poirot shot and killed at least 2 men.

              I like to think of him as a Std Liege fan.

              These observations are unrelated

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                #8
                When did the area which became the country of Belgium start to be known as Belgium? Was it before the country existed, and if so, why?

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                  #9
                  Wiki
                  The name "Belgium" is derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.[22][C] A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings. A gradual shift of power during the 8th century led the kingdom of the Franks to evolve into the Carolingian Empire.

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                    #10
                    Ta.

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