A European king refuses to pass a paternity test and must pay a fine – 16/05/2019

The Brussels Court of Appeal on Thursday sentenced King Emeritus of Belgium Albert II to pay a daily fine of 5,000 euros while refusing to undergo a DNA test to clarify he is the biological father of Delphine Boëlas required by the courts since last November.

The monarch appealed to the Court of Cbadation of the decision ordering the laboratory test and hoped that this would stop the badysis until the judges had resolved the appeal.

However, Belgian justice has taken into account the advanced age of Albert II and considers that prevail over the interest of collecting evidenceat the request of the applicant.

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The Court of Appeal thus confirmed that must pbad the paternity test without waiting for the cbadationeven if the result is not disclosed until the appeal is finally resolved.

In November, the court ruled that the woman, who claims for years in court to be a daughter of the extramarital affair of Albert II, she's not the daughter of the one who appears as her biological fatherJacques Boel, and gave a term of three months to the father of the current Belgian sovereign to submit to the DNA test.

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In 2013, Jacques Boël had already undergone a paternity test to conclude that Delphine was not his descendant, but the courts considered him a legal father. The people concerned have appealed this decision and it is this file that remains open.

"I think the king will be subject to this test because he has guarantees that it will remain confidential," told AFP Guy Hiernaux, one of his lawyers. "It depends on him," said another lawyer, Alain Berenboom.

Source: DPA and AFP

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