Johan Lisette Joseph Demol (born 9 June 1957 in

Uccle Uccle () or Ukkel () is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). It is generally considered an affluent area of the city a ...

) is a former Belgian police commissioner and politician for the

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. He served as the commissioner of police in Schaarbeek, Brussels for a period until it became known he had been a member of the militant Front de la Jeunesse group.

Biography

Demol started his career in 1976 as a member of the

Belgian Gendarmerie The Gendarmerie ( French) or Rijkswacht (Dutch) was the former national Gendarmerie force of the Kingdom of Belgium. It became a civilian police organisation in 1992, a status it retained until 1 January 2001, when it was, together with the ...

before becoming a police officer in Brussels in the 1980s. He became the commissioner for police in Schaarbeek in 1994 and was known for supporting strong policies to tackle crime in the area. However, it became known Demol had been a leader within the banned Front de la Jeunesse paramilitary group which had committed a series of violent attacks. He was later removed from the commissioner position. He was elected to the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region as a member of the

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party in 1999 and then appointed to the

Flemish Parliament The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: , formerly called Flemish Council or ''Vlaamse Raad'') constitutes the legislative power in Flanders for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and as a cultural communi ...

as one of the six first elected members of the Dutch language group of the Brussels Capital Council. He sat in the Flemish Parliament until 2004 and the Brussels parliament until 2014.Fiche Johan Demol
Raad van de Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie

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