Archives mensuelles : January 2014

Third attempt deportation of a woman 23/01/2014

Mrs O, from Angola, was arrested at the Brussels airport on 17 December 2103 with an Italian visa. She was planning to go to Italy. The airport police arrested her and she has been retained in the closed centre of … Continuer la lecture

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New deportation of an Afghan this 22 January 2014 : not deported

Among the detainees in closed centres, Congolese, Chinese, Moroccans, Algerians, Cameroonians, Russians and… Afghans. Most of them are deported after months of imprisonment. No one pays attention anymore to the Afghans that are deported. They are often arrested during demonstrations … Continuer la lecture

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Tensions in the closed centre of Vottem 12 January 2014:update

Update 15/01 “Following the ‘encounter’ with the director of Vottem, five detainees were placed in solitary confinement and fifteen were transferred to other centres!!! The calm was restored! Since the evening of Saturday 11 January, the tension has been high … Continuer la lecture

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Third attempt deportation 18/01/2014 : Update: deportation refused by a hospital doctor

!Update: Update 18/01/2014 Mrs K was brought under escort to the 127bis closed centre in Steenokkerzeel the day before her departure. Around 7 p.m she noticed that she was losing blood. She warned the staff of the centre. She was … Continuer la lecture

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Chronicles of ordinary women deportations : January 18 2014

A few stories of women in the centres: A lot of women are ringing us these days to denounce the situation of their co-detainees in the closed centres of Bruges and Steenokkerzeel. A climate that is harsh and heavy. On … Continuer la lecture

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UUUrgent , centre fermé 127bis 10/01/2014 :(FR)

Update: 13/01: les travaux de peinture ont commencé dans l’aile 1. Même que certains détenus y participent et seraient payer pour leur travail (en noir?) Ce matin l’aile 1 du centre fermé 127bis à Steenokkerzeel a été vidée de ses … Continuer la lecture

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How Maggie creates her figures and so inflates her popularity within a manipulated electorate

O1/O1/2014 Preamble : The detainees currently provide us with very little information on the situation in the closed centres (detention centres)  it is only once released or deported that tongues are loosened and that they give us the information they … Continuer la lecture

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Detention, an essential communication tool

As long as the centres are saturated, it’s OK, the maximum turnover is being assured and the detention statistics climb ! Detention often lasts several months and is accompanied by blackmail, physical and / or psychological pressure. This in order … Continuer la lecture

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Embassies tours, sometimes it’s like playing Russian roulette

To evict you need a pass from the embassy of the country of destination. The Office put in every effort to achieve this, always contempt for man and woman, sometimes in defiance of the law (the law is the law” … Continuer la lecture

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Asylum: legal proceedings to be limited, reduced and atrophied: 01/01/2014

The Foreigners’ Office is the one that “registers the application and makes a few screenings ” before even handing the case over to the CGRA (Commissariat général aux réfugiés et apatrides – Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons). It … Continuer la lecture

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Mass arrests 1/1/2014

Arrests take place at all possible stages of the migrants’  journey without any coherence nor ethics, because it increases the figures! – The negative results of the regularisation campaign of 2009 fall daily.  People who introduced a regularisation request are … Continuer la lecture

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Dublin 2 proceeding : 01/01/2014

Dublin procedure seems to be used indiscriminately by the Office des étrangers to prevent new claims and increase the number of evictions , but more curiously to increase figures of confinements ! During this procedure,e the refugee will be assisted … Continuer la lecture

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Evictions : an aim in itself, a symbol sent to electors:

01/01/2014: Deport at any price just to increase the numbers! Evictions are daily and become more commonplace in the centres : ” Soon it will be my turn madame.” Many prisonners, after several months of detention and legal struggle comply … Continuer la lecture

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Collective deportations : an industrial view of deportation , as carried out by Maggie by Europe ( Frontex):

 On the 21st of November 2013, a collective deportation to Eastern Europe took place. A dozen people were taken to the detention centre 127bis in the late evening and put in detention . Very early in the next morning, they … Continuer la lecture

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Orders to leave the territory (OQT) atall-will: 01/01/2014

When the centres are full and deportations are accelerated to their limits, how otherwise make increase the figures wonders Maggie ? A three-letter solution (voters, like dogs, remember short names easily) , that’s good: OQT. Order to leave the territory. … Continuer la lecture

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