It is a highly symbolic delivery that was made this morning in front of the future National Crisis Center, occupied since Sunday by asylum applications. The latter refuse to leave the premises, fearing that they will have to sleep on the street due to the lack of places available to accommodate them. The Belgian state has also been condemned on numerous occasions, having penalties of millions of euros to pay. Failing to do so, furniture was seized from the office of the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole De Moor, before being put up for auction.
Three sofas have been recovered by citizens, who are campaigning for the refugees to be treated as required by international law. Furniture that was symbolically delivered this morning to asylum seekers living in the Brussels building. “We recovered this seized furniture. The idea is to return this furniture materially to those to whom it belongs, that is to say to these asylum seekers harmed by the state”tells us a participant in this action.
Belgium is struggling to find a solution to this problem, while the penalty payments are increasing a little more every day, with 8,000 convictions of this kind in 2022.
