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The Royal Zoute Golf Club was an exclusive golf club in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, patronised by nobles and business elites with ties to the bank Societe Generale. The club had belonged to a noble Belgian statesman and banker named Count Maurice Auguste Lippens in the early twentieth century, through whom it was granted a Royal title in 1925 by the Belgian monarchy. The club's custodianship remained within the Lippens family through one of Lippens' sons, Count Leopold Lippens, who served as Mayor of Knokke-Heist.1
In the X-Dossier, witness X1 (Regina Louf) testified she had been used as a child prostitute at a hotel-villa located at Elizabetlaan 83, Knokke-Heist, situated on the north-western boundary of the Royal Zoute Golf Club. X1's grandmother Cecile Beernaert lived at Golfpad 4, tucked discreetly behind this hotel-villa. X1 identified clients including Paul Vanden Boeynants, Count Leopold Lippens, and Michel Nihoul among those who raped and tortured her at the villa. Witness X2 corroborated these accounts, identifying the same hotel-villas surrounding the golf club as venues for sadomasochist child sex parties she attended with a magistrate identified as Karel.1
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Dovey, S. (2023). Eye of the Chickenhawk. United States: Thehotstar. ↩︎