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A former chief executive of Laura Ashley and Radio Rentals, he has also chaired Virgin Express. Since 2010, he has been chairman of the Teenage Cancer Trust...

"A binding agreement has been signed with Virgin Express Holdings", majority shareholder of Virgin Express, placing the two companies "under the joint ownership of SN Airholding", majority shareholder of SN Brussels Airlines, announced SN Airholding in a press release.

The president of SN Airholding, Etienne Davignon, hammered throughout a press conference organized in Brussels that both Virgin Express and SN Brussels would remain two "independent companies", with distinct product offers but a common strategy.

..On February 2, 1997, X1 recognized Katrien de Cuyper in a series of images he was shown. She explained how this girl was taken to a castle and murdered by a group of individuals including Tony, Nihoul and Bouty. [109] Before she was killed, X1 noticed that Katrien seemed much more uncomfortable than more experienced girls. She thought this girl had been recruited by Tony.

After X1 gave a description of the castle and the route it had traveled, investigators were able to find the estate in question: Kattenhof Castle in Gravenwezel, owned by the Caters family. [110] It turned out that this family had several properties in Knokke in the streets where X1 had already reported certain apartments where she had been mistreated. [111] Baron Patrick de Caters, co-owner of the Caters estate, is a member of the Cercle de Wallonië, with Etienne Davignon, Prince Philippe de Chimay, Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit (vice-president Cercle de Lorraine), Elio Di Rupo and Aldo Vastapane. All of these men have been accused of abusing and raping children at some point, although it has to be argued that some of the charges are more reliable than others. In addition, next to the domain of Caters, the castle of Axel Vervoordt can be found. Vervoordt is a famous art collector, who counts international stars and businessmen among his clientele. He too has been accused of pedophilia. But we'll get to that later....

...The influence of Société Générale on the Belgian economy has always been immense, controlling between 25 and 50% of the Belgian manufacturing industry. [181] It was only in 1988 that the unimaginable happened: the French group Suez took over the bank, and with it, a big chunk of the Belgian economy. Viscount Etienne Davignon was appointed president and held this position until 2001. Count Maurice Lippens became vice-president of the bank...

..Another important aristocratic Belgian company is the chemical giant Solvay, founded in 1863 by the Solvay family. It became public in 1967, but the Solvay and Boël families were able to retain control over the company through their holding Union Financière Boël. The Janssens, De Selliers De Moranvilles and Karel van Miert are also major shareholders of Solvay, or of the Solvac holding. In 2003, Van Miert replaced Etienne Davignon as director of Solvay....

Besides the royal family, Viscount Etienne Davignon is probably the best known of this group internationally. Although he comes from a less influential family than the others listed here, Davignon may well be continental Europe's most influential person in the process of globalization, with particular emphasis on mainstreaming the Europe in the sense of Anglo-Saxon liberal policies. In addition to his positions in the above companies, Davignon has held (or still holds) the following positions:

First President of the International Energy Agency (IEA)

Director of Kissinger Associates and good friend of Henry Kissinger

Director of Minorco / Anglo-American Corporation

Vice-President of the European Commission

Co-founder of the European Round Table of Industrialists with someone who worked at different times for the Rockefellers, the Kissinger, the Rothschilds and the Lazard Bank

Co-founder and president of the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe

President of CSR Europe (European business network)

Founder of the EU-Japan Industrial Cooperation Center

President of the EU-Japan Economic Dialogue

Co-founder and president of Friends of Europe

· Allegedly a former governor of Ditchley, a very elitist Anglo-American-Canadian network.

· Director of the European Institute until the early 2000s, with former Secretary of State and President of the Kissinger Associates Lawrence Eagleburger and other American and European elites. The board was and is chaired by Andre Yves-Istel de Rothschild, Inc.

President of the Royal Institute of International Relations (Belgian version of RIIA)

Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

Member of the Trilateral Commission

Honorary Chairman of Bilderberg

One of Davignon's closest collaborators in business and the process of globalization is Count Maurice Lippens, whom he really got to know in the late 1980s, when they both ran Société Générale. Together they also headed the Belgian branch of the Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis and they created SN Brussels Airlines. Maurice visited Bilderberg in 2000, 2002 and 2006 and has become an annual visitor to the Trilateral Commission in recent years. Regarding these meetings, he said:

“I have never visited DAVOS and I think it is a great carnival. I get the membership lists and I can already call any of the interesting people there. I enjoy visiting Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission. The industrial roundtable is interesting, but I am not a member because I am not an industrialist ... Talking about the future of the world is a difficult thing by the way I want to listen and network at Washington with the Trilateral Commission. You will hear interesting trends firsthand. "[184]


Now why is all this of any importance you ask yourself?

Well, for starters, because the Lippens family appears in the X-Files.

X1, X2, X4 and two anonymous letters, named Maurice Lippens and his brother Léopold, the long-time mayor of Knokke, as evil and sadistic child rapists, not only involved in regular rapes, but also in the network. of "snuff" movies. [185] In addition, a relative of the latter, Count François Lippens, Honorary Consul General of Belgium, appears somewhere in the Dutroux file....

..Etienne Davignon is another person whose name appears in the X-Files, although he was not involved to the same extent as the Lippens family. X2, the police officer, was apparently the only one to mention him as a participant in orgies, along with the Lippens brothers, where underage girls were raped:

“Orgies with underage girls in the Cromwel hotel in Knokke Present: Delvoie - Karel - X2 - Lippens - Van Gheluwe - Etienne Davignon The girls knew where to go and with whom. Lippens hits the little girls Several meetings between Karel and Davignon In the Memling hotel with the two Lippens. "[187]..

..Have you ever noticed how much Solvay seems to come back a number of times? Etienne Davignon, Karel van Miert and Guy De Selliers De Moranville were all directors of this company. But there is more. Les Boëls and Janssens, the two main shareholders of Solvay, were accused of drug and child trafficking in 1999, alongside Dossiers-X. [193] Françoise Dehaye, whose husband was named by X2 as part of the abuse network [194], is responsible for quality and innovation at Solvay. The gamekeeper and / or forester of La Hulpe, the Solvay family castle, has been accused of being a brutal child molester. [195] And the strange declarations on the Château des Amerois, belonging to the Solvay family, which also appear in the Dutroux file? ...

..In Belgium, at least, the evidence seems to point to a network of criminals, fascist activists, businessmen, police officers and child molesters who frequently meet in clubs like "Les Atrebates", "le Dolo ”,“ Jonathan ”,“ Le Clin D'Œil ”,“ Co-Cli-Co ”,“ Platos ”,“ Les Trois Canards ”,“ Coco Beach ”,“ Le Perroquet ”,“ Euro 92 ”( bar in Tervueren) or the prestigious “Mirano”. Child abuse reportedly occurred regularly in the private quarters of these clubs, or perhaps after closing, some evenings or in nearby apartments owned by the club owner. Moreover, X1 very convincingly pointed out that his grandmother's hotel-villa, one of Annie Bouty's houses and the factory of ASCO were other similar “safe houses” for various forms of child abuse. Other witnesses reported a whole range of other villas, country houses and castles where abuse sessions had taken place...

..Child Focus, or the European Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, was founded in 1998 by Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer and has been headed by this person ever since. In 2005, de Lichtbuer became president of the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), headquartered in Washington and which was founded in 1999. Who is this Lichtbuer? First of all, he is very big in the financial world, with former positions at Banque Bruxelles Lambert, the Belgian Bankers Association, VP Bank Liechtenstein (with Nikolaus von Liechtenstein), Thomas Cook Traveler Checks and the European Financial Marketing Association. He was also executive chairman of the aristocratic Europa Nostra. But things become really problematic when we learn that de Lichtbuer is a member of the honorary committee of the Cercle de Lorraine, along with Maurice Lippens and Etienne Davignon. Equally worrying is his position as honorary executive chairman of the Koninklijke Vereniging der Historische Woonsteden en Tuinen van België, together with Prince Alexandre de Merode (former chairman) and Count Ghislain d'Ursel. Davignon was also a member of the board of directors...

There is another indication that de Lichtbuer might not be the best choice for an organization against child abuse: 1998, Stef Janssens, 'The names of the cover-up', p. 33: “In 1989, Nicolas de Kerchove d'Ousselghem (Cercle Pinay, CEPIC, chief of staff of Vanden Boeynants, VdB contact with the intelligence organization BIP) and Paul Vankerkhoven, member of CEPIC and co-founder of the Cercle des Nations [And the founder of WACL Belgium, as well as a visitor from the Cercle Pinay] ... were employees of the review 'Revue Belge' ”. This right-wing magazine had as its director the current director of the Center for Missing Children and former BBL-director Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer, which in itself is not reprehensible, but says something about the environment in which the current director of this center has been involved. To clarify, this environment seems to be the highest social environment in which childhood violence is practiced.