Cédric Visart de Bocarmé – Wikipédia
Cédric Visart de Bocarmé , ec. (born in Schaerbeek, the ), is a Belgian magistrate, belonging to the public prosecutor.
The Visart family obtained in 1753 the elevation as a county of the lordships of Bury and Bocarmé, with transmission of the Comtal title by primogeniture.
Cédric Visart is the second son of Alain Visart de Bocarmé (1923-2021) and Solange de Halloy de Walsort (° 1926). His grandfather is Count Philippe Visart de Bocarmé (1891-1986), president of the Central Society of Agriculture in Belgium. His big uncle is Ferdinand Visart de Bocarmé (1859-1952), bourgmestre of emines. His great-great-grandfather is Emile Visart de Bocarmé (1833-1919), bourgmestre of Temploux. Count Amédée Visart de Bocarmé (1794-1855) was bourgmestre of Sainte-Croix Lez Bruges. From this parentage, a family tradition also illustrated by other public service members emerge in rural communities.
Cédric Visart married in 1982 the law professor Anne Lambert ( – [ first ] ). They had a son, Maxime, and two daughters, Argentina and Solenne.
Licensed in law of the Catholic University of Louvain, Cédric Visart began his career in 1977 as a lawyer and became, four years later, a member of the standing magistracy, first as a legal trainee in Namur then as a substitute for the prosecutor of the prosecutor King in Charleroi then in Namur, specializing in economic, financial and commercial matters.
He collaborated as an advisor for civil and commercial matters in the office of the Minister of Justice Mechior Wathelet between 1988 and 1990.
In 1990, he became a prosecutor of the king at the prosecution at the Namur court of first instance. This mandate was interrupted from 1995 to 1998 when he worked in the office of a Minister of Justice (Christian Democrat) first as deputy chief of staff and then as chief of staff to Stefan de Clerck (CD&V).
At the end of 2004, Cédric Visart de Bocarmé succeeded, at the age of 51, to Anne Thily as a prosecutor general at the Liège Court of Appeal. He is the youngest attorney general never arrived at this position. He was chosen from eight candidates. He chaired the College of Prosecutors General for 3 years between 2006 and 2010.
Expert in criminal matters and judicial management, as such was sent by the Council of Europe on numerous occasions since 2009, in the countries of Eastern Europe in Tunisia and Morocco, Albania in Albania and in Malta.
In , he was one of the founders of the Professional Union of the Magistracy (UPM), of which he assured the presidency for 4 years.
In December 2011, he left his duties as a prosecutor general in Liège to become chief of staff to the Minister of the Interior Joëlle Milquet.
To date from September 2012, he returned to the judiciary by integrating the federal prosecutor’s office, ensuring international relations there [ 2 ] .
He was elected as President of the Council Advisory Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) of the Council of Europe for the years 2015 and 2016.
On September 1, 2016, he was appointed director of the public prosecutor’s support service for a 5 -year term.
He exercised the functions of lecturer in administrative law, criminal law and criminal procedure between 1992 and 2012.
He has been a member of the Rotary Club of Namur since 1991 and has been its president in 2002-2003.
Since 2014, he has been president of the Archaeological Society of Namur (SAN).
He has been administrator of the “Child Focus” foundation since 1 is January 2014.
On January 21, 2022, he and elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Namur for a mandate of 4 years.
- ONCRO INTO INSTION IN LIBER Belgium , July 6 & 7, 2013, p. 48.
- RTBF info , September 6, 2012 [first] .
- Oscar Coomans de Brachène, Present state of the Belgian nobility. 2000 directory , Brussels, 2000.
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