Albert Raes
Albert Raes (Bruges 21 February 1932) was a Belgian magistrate and was head of the State Security Service (Belgium), Belgian Security Services from 1977 until 1990. Biography Raes is the son of Firmin Raes, who was an executive at the train and railway manufacturer and the chief of the Chamber of Rhetoric . Albert Raes is married and has two daughters. He finished his secondary school at the Sint-Lodewijks College in Bruges (rhetorics 1951) and continued at the University of Louvain. He graduated in 1955 as a doctor of law. In 1955 he organized a congress in Bruges on behalf of the , the group of Christian democratic parties in Europe, predecessor of the European Christian-democratic party (EVP). He also organized a gathering of the European Young Christian Democrats. He completed his military service at the First Regiment of Horse Guards and ended as a reserve officer. Back in Bruges, he started working at the offices of the Officer of public prosecution. Soon he was made a priv ...
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Bruges
Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 km2; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from , meaning 'Bruges by the Sea'). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008),Statistics Belgium; ''Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2008'' (excel-file)
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