The pompous building near the river is a branch of the National Bank of Belgium. It was here that some bizar acitivity took place leading to the main suspect of the theft of the panel of the “Lam Gods”. Arsène Goedertier, the main suspect, opened here an account a few weeks before the theft.  Only a few transactions were made on this account. The first transaction took place before the purchasing of a typewriter in a shop in the “Vlaanderenstraat”, for almost the same amount as the price of the typewriter.A second transaction took place, just before the ransom would be paid and the exchange of the painting would take place in Antwerp. This never happened and till today, the painting is never found back.

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From here, between the statue of the brother Van Eyck and the “Vijt-chapel” of the Kathedral, a couple of old ladies saw a light shining in the chapel, at the evening of the disappearance of a panel of the painting of the “Lam Gods”. Althought they thought it was strange, they suspected no bad and didn’t inform the police. They continued their way to their house at the “Bisdomplein”.

The “Vijt“-chapel was the place where the original painting was located. Now, a copy of the painting can be admired there. The original can be seen at the back of the kathedral in a well-prtected place. You can reconize the “Vijt“-chapel easily:a white lamb has been painted on one of the windows.

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