The job of official architect sounds like something that belongs more to the Florence of the Medicis than cuttingedge Flanders, but the fact that Peter Swinnen has just been chosen for the post shows it’s no mediaeval relic.
When you talk to Axel Poels, you’re keeping half of the nation’s Art Squad away from his work. In all of Belgium, there are only two police officers charged with tackling art fraud and art theft.