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from its foundation in 1986 to 2002. Flanders Expo is the biggest event hall in
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Mortier died in hospital of a heart attack on 3 May 2004. He was 55, and was survived by his wife, Sylva Van der
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from 1988 until his death in 2004. After the degradation in 1988, Mortier consulted the Prime
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