In Belgium, the equivalent of our detention centers (ARC) are named slightly less ambiguous " detention centers."
There are six, managed by the Office for Foreigners. Their total capacity is 628 seats. They "get" about 7,000 people each year.
centers are not officially closed prison, but places "where an alien is detained, placed at the disposal of the government or maintained" in the words of the royal decrees which shall lay down the rules and operation (RD of June 8, 2009, adopted after the partial cancellation by the State Council of 2 August 2002).
127bis center is located along the Brussels National Airport, the town of Steenokkerzeel. Built in 1993, has 120 seats.
Photo of Tristan Locus, borrowed from the site Waking people on detention centers ,
which I also borrowed the encrypted information.
Over the past week, reached us the news of a strike hungry inmates at the 127 bis. The information was given by RTL Info-Point-be :
Several inmates of the detention center 127a of Steenokkerzeel began Wednesday a hunger strike, according to the "No Deportation" and the Coalition against roundups, deportations and the regularization (CRER). The hunger strikers and these associations report acts of psychological abuse and physical abuse of several detainees.
Tuesday evening, a young Egyptian had been taken to an isolation room, where he has been abused by four guards. They have also made threats against the young man to accept his expulsion in a calm and he never returns to Belgium. He had marks on his body. Monday, six Armenians, after attempting to escape from the 127 bis, were also treated in a degrading manner, because " forced to stay outside while the rooms were excavated " the statement said "No Deportation "organizer" No Border Camp in Brussels in 2010.
It is surprising that this information was relayed as "the was closed towards the center [had] not yet been able to react, it is unreachable in the evening of Wednesday "but it happens in Belgium, not France.
A solidarity demonstration was held yesterday in front of the gates 127a. Forty people were present, behind a banner denouncing the "Human Rights in danger," to protest against violence and impunity for guards. RTL Info-Point-be this result in his inimitable style: Having
the feeling of being supported and heard, many asylum seekers felt sprout wings at the sight of protesters and caused damage inside the center. They set fire and smashed several windows. Some of them are also going (sic) their anger on the roof.
This morning a new article took stock of the following events:
(...) Around midnight, after the transfer of most people who took part in the incidents to the center of Bruges, and Vottem Merksplas, calm has returned to the center that welcomes refugees rejected candidates. According to the officer in charge of the police, Alex Mylemans, fire damage has only secondary to those caused by vandals, including "some behaved like savages .
The greatest damage was caused in the wing reserved for men, where the incidents occurred. A second wing, which also housed men is temporarily uninhabitable. According to the spokesman of the police, all health and all the lights were damaged. Following a short circuit, there is also no longer power. (...)
It took until early afternoon for having, by the same channel , confirmation of information that was circulated on Sunday evening on the lists of militant networks:
Centre 127 bis: A resident escaped during the incident Sunday
C is Mr. Freddy Roosemont, director of the Foreign Office, which says a good exercise in communication:
Man has received assistance from demonstrators, according to the director, who attributed part of the responsibility incidents to the protesters.
" Several witnesses saw how the resident was assisted by protesters to pass the fence, "said Freddy Roosemont." It is reported and the police are looking for now but to no avail. "From the director of the Foreign Office, the event is the cause of the fire and unrest in the very center." These protesters have every right to protest against the existence of this center but not with the way that was used Sunday. There is a difference between calmly utter slogans and hold onto the fence and climb the residents. "
Moreover, not surprisingly, we learn that the director does not bring a civil cases of criminal prosecution.
Despite the delicious feeling of disorientation and exoticism that one always feels on hearing of Belgium, we feel that there too, Europe deprivation of liberty is running
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