Category: Collective deportations

   On April 25 2023, fifteen Congolese detainees who had been held for several months in various closed centers were transferred to 127bis for collective deportation. The next day, eleven of these people were forcibly deported by military flight to … Continuer la lecture →

Collective deportation to Guinea and DRC on 2017/11/28 Several guineas detained in the Vottem and 127bis closed centres have received a ticket for a collective flight this coming Tuesday 2017/11/28. The flight would leave at 10:30. The social assistants have … Continuer la lecture →

RESISTANCE……..and profile of the DRC people deported on the collective flight to Nigeria, Ghana and the DRC Opponents Several are well known opponents to Kabila’s regime and they have been militants for years. They have been retained in closed centres … Continuer la lecture →

Update 07/08 /2017:  departurz of the flight the 09/08/2017 at 10 p.m. —————————————————————————————————————————- We learned from a sound source that 80 to 100 Nigerians will be deported on August 9th or 10th. It would be a Frontex flight organised by … Continuer la lecture →

20/04 We are expecting news from the deported. It was a “joint flight” organised by Frontex. Mainstream media com: http://www.sudinfo.be/1828519/article/2017-04-19/dix-neuf-congolais-et-guineens-expulses-par-vol-militarise-depuis-la-belgique Nineteen Congolese and Guineans deported from Belgium on a military flight. Eleven Congolese and eight Guineans were smoothly deported on … Continuer la lecture →

01/04/2017 – We’ve heard from two different sources that a military flight to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would be foreseen in the coming days/weeks. We know that a dozen Congolese are currently being retained in closed centres, among … Continuer la lecture →

16/03/2016 Last week, a wing of the detention center 127 bis has been emptied on 08/03/2016. We hear that on 14/03 17 Nigerian women have been brought there. So, we assume that some of them have been brought from other … Continuer la lecture →

24/02/2016 ‘The whole wide world gathers in our closed centre: North Africans, sub-Saharans, Estern Europeans, Russians, Asians, Latin Americans, and even from the United States of America.’ They will be deported thanks to the collegial collaboration of consuls and ambassadors … Continuer la lecture →

14th October:Confirmation that the collective flight to Nigeria will be a military flight departing from Melsbroek¹s military airport (Chaussée de Haecht). It would supposedly take off in the beginning of the evening, to be confirmed 13th October: two days mobilisation … Continuer la lecture →

We heard through the Flemish media that the Office was busy organising the ‘voluntary return’ of 78 Iraqis. 40 will be put on a plane this Friday 18th of September 2015 and 38 on Wednesday 23rd of September 2015. The … Continuer la lecture →

We heard some news about the collective deportation of this 17th of June. Information is not easy to get seen the obvious traumatism of the people deported after the violence they could feel during the deportation, and the bad welcoming … Continuer la lecture →

This Sunday 14th of June, the persons who wanted to visit close friends or family members in the 127bis closed centre were told that visits would not be possible during 3 days. They insisted in knowing why this wouldn’t be … Continuer la lecture →

One more attempt for collective deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) CANCELED Some Congolese detainees in the 127bis closed centre have been notified of their scheduled deportation for the 07/05/2015 09 p.m., leaving from the Melsbroek military airport … Continuer la lecture →

We heard that a new grouped deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been planned for 28th April 2015. Congolese people living in Belgium or in other European countries will be escorted by the federal police to the … Continuer la lecture →

Update 02/24/2015: Many newcomers, all Albanian, in the detention center 127bis. We do not know exactly where they come from? And what we have come to know: The majority of people locked in the CRA in Calais and Lille are … Continuer la lecture →

30/O1/2015 The Belgo-European deportation machine struck hard again this week. Europe has no frontiers whent it comes to racits policies and the hunt for immigrants. Let’s remind in that context that Albania had introduced their application for membership to the … Continuer la lecture →

After the collective flight organised on December 17th 2014 to deport 38 Albanians, a new collective expulsion to Albania has been planned  for this Friday 30th of January. Théo Francken had said so: he organises, among other things, collective expulsions … Continuer la lecture →

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The collective flight had 19 Belgian Congolese and 3 Congolese from Bulgaria and Finland to be deported according to the Foreigners Office, flight coordonate by Frontex. It had a stop over in Niger to then land in Kinshasa during the … Continuer la lecture →

4 novembre 4 p.m.It was a frontex flight with 19 “illegal” from Belgium and three from Finland and Roumenie, say the mainstream media 4 November 1 p.m. They left the centre around noon, handcuffed, in two big buses and several … Continuer la lecture →

On 27th May, a group of policemen wearing uniforms, accompanied with loads of civilians, invaded the yard of the 127 bis closed centre at 7 a.m. Here are a few testimonies: ‘ – There was a lot of agitation on … Continuer la lecture →

Update 16/03: On leur a dit au 127bis que c’est demain lundi entre 11h et 12h qu’on va les transférer à l’aéroport militaire, qu’ils seront accompagnés de nombreux policiers.. .la déclaration de Bantama Sow (http://www.africaguinee.com/articles/2014/03/15/expulsion-des-guineens-de-l-etranger-les-precisions-du-ministre-bantama-sow)        http://www.africaguinee.com/articles/2014/03/13/belgique-les-autorites-de-conakry-s-opposent-l-expulsion-d-une-dizaine-de Update 14/03: It … Continuer la lecture →

Il a été annoncé à plusieurs Guinéens dans les centres fermés qu’ils seraient expulsés ce lundi 17/03/2014. Assez étonnant que la date leurs ait été annoncée. Beaucoup n’ont pas reçu de laissez-passer de leur ambassade. Surtout qu’il semble exister (non … Continuer la lecture →

update 24/02: There was 38 Congolese people in the flight., 7 from the cosed centre of Belgium. “it was very,very hard”. A majority of them are always in detention in Kinshasa. 19/02 2:30 p.m. As far as we know, the … Continuer la lecture →

Update 04/12: Thirty Congolese (men and women) were placed on a military flight, each one escorted by three police officers. More info to come. Update 04/12 9:45 a.m.  15 women and 38 men from Congo in the closed centre. The … Continuer la lecture →

 06/11/2013 A new grouped flight towards the DRC threatens the closed centers. The Congolese ambassador is coming on Thursday 8/11 to visit the 127bis and identify the 20 detainees, 7 women and 13 men.  A few quotes from the prisonners … Continuer la lecture →

First art here 31/10/2013 These  news have been collected from testimonies of people expelled or locked up. Thirty congolese were brought from other closed centers to the 127bis with the intention of a collective expulsion to the DRC the 27 … Continuer la lecture →

We learn that a flight collective deportation will be held this Sunday, October 27.Several Congolese (s) of different detention centers are currently gathered in closed center 127aImpossible to know the details of these flights.A call turns to go protest and … Continuer la lecture →

10/07 Een Afghan man free, Ten new Afghans are in the closed center of Bruges. It is more and more sure ther will be a collectif flight (with the Netherlands?) 07/07 15 Afghans are in the closed centrum 127 bis … Continuer la lecture →

Really, it is a bad taste serial story that goes on and on… While around 30 Congolese people coming from Belgium, Ireland, France and Germany were deported on a Frontex flight to Congo last week, this Sunday 23rd of June, … Continuer la lecture →

 24/06: We were around twenty people making noise in front of the airport so that the deported people could hear us. The Foreigners Office misled us: the same evening, around 20 other Congolese were gathered at the 127bis centre (where … Continuer la lecture →

 The secret was well kept, a state secret as one can imagine, and we learnt later that the flight was chartered by FRONTEX (the European agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders) and organised by Belgium … Continuer la lecture →

  16/06 10 a.m;: flight will be on 6 pm to day Between 30 and 40 people of Congolese origin are going to be taken on a collective flight this Sunday (tomorrow). They have been taken to several closed centres … Continuer la lecture →

Testimony by a man in the group of people deported to Guinea http://www.gettingthevoiceout.org/testimony-by-a-man-in-the-group-of-people-deported-to-guinea-on-the-24th-of-april-2013/  These flights are not divulgated to anyone by the authorities and seem to be state secret. Nevermind, information is gathered on these acts of repression which were … Continuer la lecture →

19 Congoleze and 4 Angoleze deportated from Belgium To Congo on 6 maart 2012 Read here

Deportation of 19 Congolese and 4 Angolese from Belgium. It seems that the deportation of March 6th 2012 had been plotted for several months by the Belgian Foreigners’ Office. Several days before, the Congolese and Angolese people had been gathered … Continuer la lecture →