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Culture 21:59 09/05/2021 A classification procedure has been launched to protect rare mural paintings produced by Hergé, the world-known inventor of Tintin, when he was 15 years old and a member of a scout troop. In a small room, eight metres by three - a former garage on the grounds of the Institut Saint-Boniface in Ixelles - the walls are covered with original stencilled drawings: scouts on all fours or climbing rope, 35 galloping knights, American Indians and a large map of Belgium. These mural paintings, brownish-green, in poor condition, are now the subject of a classification procedure launched by the Brussels Region. But this doesn’t mean that protection is in the bag. The office of Pascal Smet, secretary of state in charge of heritage protection for the Brussels region, cautions that the objective of the procedure is to analyse the pros and cons. The opening of the procedure is not synonymous with classification.” ....