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NAMUR, Belgium (LifeSiteNews) – A Belgian court on Tuesday declared a COVID vaccine passport scheme illegal and threatened to fine a region that imposed it.
The Namur Court of First Instance ruled that Belgium’s Wallonia region must fix the “apparent illegality” of its Covid Safe Ticket (CST) policy within a week or face 5,000 euros ($5,660) in fines for each day of delay, Belgian pro-freedom group Notre Bon Droit (NBD) announced. Wallonia, which includes most of southern Belgian, has a population of around 3.5 million.
The court pointed to several legal issues with Wallonia’s vaccine passport decree, issued October 21, including an “apparent contradiction” to European law and the right to protection of personal data. Tuesday’s ruling also said that the order may violate the principle of proportionality and criticized it for imposing discrimination “without objective and scientific justification,” according to NBD, which challenged the rule.
The government of Wallonia has appealed the decision, saying in a statement that it does not plan to suspend the CST despite the Namur court’s ruling.
“This decision does not cancel the Walloon decree,” the
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