Albert Joseph Marcel Folens (15 October 1916 – 9 September 2003) was a Belgian-born publisher of educational materials.
[1] One account says that he left the novitiate in protest over the order teaching Flemish children through French.
[1] Folens claimed that the novel The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience had inspired his devotion to Flemish identity in childhood.
After the war, being named on the CROWCASS list of suspected collaborators, he was sentenced by a Belgian court to 10 years imprisonment.
Juliette Folens, his widow, obtained a temporary High Court injunction to prevent the use of a 1987 interview with her husband on an ex parte basis.
[3] The interview had been taken twenty years previous, but did not provide information that proved the accusations that he was a member of the Gestapo.
[citation needed] Under Irish law, one cannot defame a person after their death and Mr. Folens was not alive at the time that this documentary was released.
[1] He was captured by British forces in Germany at the end of the war and repatriated to Belgium, where he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for collaboration.