Dries Van Langenhove appears before the Leuven Criminal Court on Tuesday. The far-right activist is due to answer for comments made during a controversial lecture he gave last year in a lecture hall at KU Leuven.
The conference was organized on February 28, 2024, at the initiative of the Nationalist Student Association (NSV). The founder of the Schild & Vrienden movement was supposed to give a lecture on regenerative agriculture, but instead preferred to present his political vision, making numerous controversial statements. He stated, in particular, that “it is logical that fewer Black Africans obtain engineering degrees, but that they are better long-distance runners because there are differences between ethnic groups.” He also called Roma women “thieves.”
- TC Louvain – Dries Van Langenhove comparaît mardi devant le tribunal de Louvain. In: La Libre. 19.09.2025. https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/2025/09/19/tc-louvain-dries-van-langenhove-comparait-mardi-devant-le-tribunal-de-louvain-26HVHLWZDNEFFAS6XTYRI64JHU/
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