Vincent Paul Marie Van Quickenborne (born 1 August 1973) is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo from 2020 to 2023.
He attended Sint-Barbaracollege, a public Jesuit school in Ghent and went on to study law at the Catholic University of Leuven/Louvain (KU Leuven).
[1] In September 2022 he was the subject of a kidnap plot, reported to be linked to drug criminals.
[3] In September 2023 Van Quickenborne was involved in a scandal dubbed "pipigate" by the media when CCTV footage emerged of guests at his 50th birthday party urinating on a police van belonging to his protection detail.
[4] In October 2023, Van Quickenborne resigned as Minister of Justice after the 2023 Brussels shooting; by stepping down, he took political responsibility for Belgian authorities not having complied with a request from Tunisia to extradite the attacker, Abdesalam Lassoued, in August 2022.