Or more pithily put, that's where I'd suggest you exercise your data-hunting skills first should your predatory instincts be whetted after reading this article.

Mr Vorman is quite a capitalist dude on the Flemish speaking scene in Belgium. In addition to sweating away at the daily toil and drudge his companies who have issued the writ demand for him, he was asked to act as chairperson of the "General Management Committee" of the Flemish private bank "Bank De Maertelaere" upon its takeover by the French Société Générale Group at a cost of 78.3 million euros (or 57.71 million sterling at today's value) in 2001. That would naturally have included the magic powers we attribute to "stock share options". You might recognise the French Société Générale as being the company whose broker Jerome Kerviel inspired t-shirts earlier this year amidst reports that he might prove a useful scapegoat for insider trading skullduggery to the sum of many billions of euros. (or many billions in sterling at today's value). Armed with that factoid, & appreciative of how aforementioned skullduggery did devalue stock and share options somewhat (a net drop of 46.2% in the last year) you might think Mr Vorman is now just looking for a quick buck.

But no. He was looking for a slow elephant.

& many Flemish people saw him looking for that elephant on this TV program
 http://www.vtm.be/telefacts/index.php?id=945

no matter how you feel about putting a cap in an Elephants skull & ripping bambi like gazelle's horns from their scalps to adorn your living room walls, I'm pretty sure you're sending warm psychic vibes and messages of solidarity to Antwerp IMC & their contributor Emmanuel Paulus in their little struggle to keep their fledgling indymedia online, reporting well, getting up the establishment's noses rather than moderating themselves into a parody & wondering how they would pay the accrued 7 million Euros if this case is found against them.

& all for invading privacy, not the flattering telly type publicity where he smiles with bambi & struts ahead of his jeep, but rather for bringing our sort of peoples' attention to him. (our sort of people being us the dirty lower orders, well my good self at least - first step in the class war is to know which class you are). I suppose we mostly agree that being ordered to pay 7 million euros in damages or 7,000 quid an hour is as ridiculous as 1 million euros or a thousand quid an hour. if you don't have it or earn that sort of hourly wage. Consult your financial adviser if you're unsure.

So - as I suggested in the introduction we ought help our friends in Antwerp by profitly focussing each forthcoming hour of alledged invasion of privacy valued at 10,000euros on examining any West Vlaanderen far right & ultra nationalist connections to all the happy individuals who went on Mr Vroman's Big Game hunt in Zimbabwe.

It won't be too difficult. Tall people with pale skin speaking a language which seems a dialect of Afrikaans carrying powerful guns are easy to spot in Zimbabwe and very memorable even if they are ostensibly engaged in helping the Zimbabwean state (a popular one indeed) to control their elephant population. (They've been breeding like rabbits but are very edible). As this quotation from Zim news of January 2008 might clarify -

"........A worldwide ban in ivory trade has been in force since 1990, to help protect Africa's ravaged herds from poaching. The ban did not extend to killing elephants for meat, however, and this has allowed the Zimbabwean authorities to gradually increase the shooting of elephants without attracting international censure. Zimbabwe was, until recently, home to one of the world's largest elephant populations of close to 100,000 animals. Numbers have plummeted ever since the chaotic land reform program, which began in the late 1990s, and resulted in thousands of commercial farmers, as well as game ranchers, being evicted from their land. "If we keep on like this, within the next five years we won't have any animals left," said Johnny Rodrigues, the chairman for Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, an NGO based in the capital of Harare. "I've heard the plan is to process up to 6000 elephants for biltong. They are not going to stop at 500 animals." Mr Rodrigues said that in Zimbabwe elephants were being killed in large numbers to provide bush meat, ivory, and even to supply food for a government-owned crocodile ranch. Mr Rodrigues said that shooting elephants under the guise of harvesting bush meat or biltong or, frequently, of declaring an animal rogue, had become common and has served as a cover for the gathering of ivory........."  http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=18086


The English language coverage from Antwerp IMC.
 http://antwerpen.indymedia.org/news/2008/05/15263.php