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- Collective deportation “Dublin” from Great Britain to Belgium this 22/1O/2020
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Category: Migration policy
Three testimonys from closed center in Brugge 15/12/2020
After numerous infections of the COVID-19 virus among the staff (36!) as well as the people detained in the closed centre of Bruges, we received several phone calls from detainees who were worried about the situation. They have now been … Continuer la lecture
Deportation of ‘Dublin’ exiles to Belgium
14/11/2020: At Brussels airport on 10 November 2020, we welcomed five so-called ‘Dublin’ exiles of different nationalities, deported to Belgium through France and Great Britain. The three exiles coming from Great Britain had been arrested by the police in their … Continuer la lecture
Legal victory against ‘illegal’ deportations 2020
” The Belgian State has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for its inhuman migratory policy. “ In 2017, several Sudanese were retained in our closed centres and several were illegally deported to their “country of origin”. … Continuer la lecture
Saved just in time, a young Syrian girl escapes the Belgian authorities’ push back
08/05/2020 Right in the middle of a world sanitary crisis, Belgium tried to cross a new boundary in its migratory policy. The first ‘push back’ ever recorded on the Belgian territory should have taken place Friday 8 May a.m. E. … Continuer la lecture
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LET’S EMPTY THE CLOSED CENTRES
23/03/2020 The Foreigners Office refuse asylum requests but continue to deport. On 16 March 2020, the day before the confinement, two Guineans were deported to Conakry. An Ethiopian had to go through a thrid deportation attempt on 19 March 2020. … Continuer la lecture
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Borders kill 21/12/2019
List of the known exiles who passed through Belgium and were killed by borders since July 2017 TRIBUTE TO: 2017 : -Omar, 18, Sudanese, died under a bus in Brussels on 23 July 2017 -Dejen, 16, Ethiopian, died in … Continuer la lecture
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Killed by borders: 39+1 more : 24/10/2018
List of the known exiles who passed through Belgium and were killed by borders since July 2017 TRIBUTE TO: 2017 : -Omar, 18, Sudanese, died under a bus in Brussels on 23 July 2017 -Dejen, 16, Ethiopian, died in … Continuer la lecture
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What to do in case of imprisonment: Update 1 October 2019
For several weeks, the referents of the Citizens’ Platform and Gettingthevoiceout have received far less notifications of imprisonment. However, we still hear about regular raids in ports, cities and train stations. The situation in the centres: Very few retainees still … Continuer la lecture
Carte blanche against the banalisation of the FRONTEX military agency by the RTBF (Fr)
We were several to react about the publication of the RTBF which, without journalistic analysing nor scruple, made a propagandist portrait of Frontex, our European army which protects “our” borders against migrations! as such Frontex kills, locks up, deports. (see … Continuer la lecture
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ALERT: Frontex Deportation flight from Frankfurt to Lagos ( Nigeria) on 19/08/2019
ALERT: A Frontex deportation flight from Frankfurt to Lagos ( Nigeria) on 19/08/2019 Nigerians from other European countries can be brought to Franfurt to place them on this flight; Inform your Nigerian friends! Frontex : « Unknown to most Europeans a … Continuer la lecture
Death at the border of an exile based in Belgium- 8 July 2019
Death at the border of an exile based in Belgium- 8 July 2019 They were eight people, 4 women and 4 men, of Erythrean origin, in a truck driving through Bruges to go to Rotterdam this Saturday 6 July 2019. … Continuer la lecture
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CHILDREN ARE NOT TO BE LOCKED THAT’S ALL. REALLY??
03/07/2019 CHILDREN ARE NOT TO BE LOCKED THAT’S ALL. REALLY??? For several weeks, young people, sometimes very young, are being arrested on their migratory road in Belgium and retained in closed centres. ‘He has no hair on his chin, Madam’, … Continuer la lecture
Grouped deportation flight to Guinea, DRC and Senegal this Tuesday 26 March 2019
Grouped deportation flight to Guinea, DRC and Senegal this Tuesday 26 March 2019 Several people retained in the different closed centres are warning us that they will be put on a ‘special flight’ to be deported to their countries of … Continuer la lecture
Palestinians’ hunt and group deportation to Spain on 19 March 2019
15/03/2019: Since the end of January, Palestinian asylum-seekers and residents in open centre have been arrested in the Foreigners office (during an appointment) and they are bein retained in a closed centre in view of their deportation. The received the … Continuer la lecture
Two Testimonies by deported people 11/03/2019
Two Testimonies by deported people: February 2019: B., sent to Caricole, directly from the airport in October 2018, stayed 3 months in the centre. He tells us about the inaction of the social services, “the people” here, they stay 4, … Continuer la lecture
At least 100 arrests on our migratory roads, Within 8 days and 50 retentions in our closed centres
Between 4 and 11 January 2019 (8 days), at least 100 migrants were arrested in Zeebruges, Antwerp, on parking places or in trucks, on trains (even though they had train tickets), mainly on the way to the coast. Fifty of … Continuer la lecture
The Foreigners Office want to deport at all costs
17/12/2018: The merry-go-round of retentions/releases of the exiles caught in train stations and parkings all over the country goes on. In November only, 73 arrests have been reported by hosts. Sixty were released in the following days, generally thanks to … Continuer la lecture
Some scheming by the Immigration Office: 21/10/2018 and testimony
A reminder to hosts and visitors of the closed centre: When peopole who are undocumented or in exile disappear or are arrested during one of several raids, it takes 24 to 48 hours to know whether the Immigration office has … Continuer la lecture
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Suicide in closed centre in Vottem: : Gathering on 13/10 2018 : Update
Update 10/10/2018 Mr Gebre Mariam, who committed suicide at the Vottem closed centre on 9 October 2018 had obtained asylum in Bulgaria. He had been threatened with an axe there and absolutely didn’t want to go back to that country. … Continuer la lecture
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Update 27/09/2018 / worth reading if one of your friendshas been arrested
Update 27/09/2018 / WORTH READING IF ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS HAS BEEN ARRESTED Arrests have been happening at a fast pace lately. They are being arrested by dozens, night and day. We count a lot of releases too. It is … Continuer la lecture
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In Belgium too people die on migratory routes 14/09/2018
Repression, arrests, mistreatments, racketeering, deportations: these are part of the current messages on FB and elsewhere Forgetting the dead. Migrants’ hunting, be it by the police forces or by smugglers, the desperate acts of migrants to flee this repression and … Continuer la lecture
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When the hell are we going to act? Tortures, deportations, repression.
Tortures at the 127bis closed centre On 23/08/2018 H had an argument with a guardian concerning the food they get at the 127bis closed centre. He was placed in confinement. The day after, several guardians came to his cell. He … Continuer la lecture
Testimony received from hosts : 05/08/2018
Over the past few days, we have received accounts of arrests or of calls for help, Please keep on sending your testimonies on gettingthevoiceout@riseup.net We won’t be able to say that we didn’t know! 6 minors in danger in Antwerp … Continuer la lecture
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Communicating vessels. Overview 15/07/2018
For 10 who go to Great Britain, for 10 who get arrested and retained by the Foreigners Office, 20 others arrive to the North Station. They are communicating vessels! It is the law of supply and demand in this capitalist … Continuer la lecture
Information for the hosts/friends/families in case a migrant friend is missing.Update
———————————————————————————————————————————– 27/06/2018: Information for the hosts/friends/families in case a migrant friend is missing. Many foreigners in irregular situation are controlled/arrested on public transport, on parking lots, at train stations or at their homes. They are brought to a police station … Continuer la lecture
Mass arrests and news from the closed centres 26/05/2018
The Office is filling hundreds of places in our camps called closed centres; places that had been made available on the occasion of the raids announced at the North Station and in Parc Maximilien. After the mobilisation of the platform … Continuer la lecture
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Closed centres, our camps for migrants May 2018
The administrative detention of migrants (foreigners without residence permits considered as valid) entered into force in 1988 in Belgium. Since then, the multiplication of this type of space is more than obvious at the border because in 1988 there were … Continuer la lecture
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Death at the border on 22/03/2018
On 21st of March, a 22 year old man died at the port of Zeebrugge as he tried to reach the UK. He was stuck between 2 containers and died instantly. This is the fifth known death since July 2017 … Continuer la lecture
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Raids, releases,deportations : news 14/03/2018
For a few weeks, raids on parkings and in stations all around Belgium are ongoing again. Several hosts contact us to warn us of the arrest, often violent, and/of the retention in closed centres of one of their guests. Very … Continuer la lecture
New visit by a Sudanese delegation in the closed centres ?
New visit by a Sudanese delegation in the closed centres! Urgent 26/02/2018 : Call by a Sudanese man retained in Merksplas closed centre to a host. “The social assistant warned me that ‘a meeting will take place on 27 February … Continuer la lecture
Fallen into oblivion in our ‘law-abiding’ state – Appeal to all!
14/01/2018: It seems that the federal police have launched a migrants’ hunting in the whole country, determined to ‘clean’ all the country: arrests in the stations, parkings and trains the last days. Many hosts are calling us to report missing … Continuer la lecture
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The Office des étrangers in counterattack !
The fast intervention team of the Office des étrangers at work On the 25th of December 2017 around noon : a host brings back two migrants to Brussels. The federal police holds an alcohol control on the highway E40 at … Continuer la lecture
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The hunt for migrants in transit goes on
14/11/2017: The hunt for migrants in transit goes on in all the country. Every day we get alerts by hosts who lost their guests, their main worry being that they get arrested, retained and expatriated. Controls and arrests continue but … Continuer la lecture
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Children are the first victims of imprisonments and deportations!
03/10/2017 Every day, families are being broken by the Foreigners Office that retains fathers and mothers, separating them form their children, sometimes newborns, and does not hestitate to deport the parent to the “country of origin”, on the pretext of … Continuer la lecture
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They are really trapping the Sudanese
29/09/2017 Since the mass arrestations in the Maximilien park and in the North Station, we had a lot of difficulties to get in touch with the hundred people arrested and retained in the closed centre. According to the information we … Continuer la lecture
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Maximilien: Hunger strike at the 127 bis and “Call for air” – Update
Update 17/09/2017: The people who were arrested daily over the last weeks by the police in Maximilien parc, its surroundings and in the North Station are still many to be retained in closed centres. It remains very complicated to spot … Continuer la lecture
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More than 20 Sudanese and Somalis in our closed centres
05/08/2017: Francken discovered two countries he didn’t know: Sudan and Somalia. Since almost a year, migrants – mainly Sudanese and Eritreans, have been sleeping in the Maximilien Parc in Brussels. Associations and volunteers try to provide them with food and … Continuer la lecture
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Construction of three new detention centres in Belgium
05/08/2017: Mid May 2017 the Council of Ministers have approved a masterplan “Detention centres for illegal residents”. The masterplan provides a big extension of the existing return capacity and the creation of three new dentention centres. “With this masterplan we … Continuer la lecture
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‘here is the plumber, there is a leak in the house’
17/06/2017 Violence strikes again: married and repelled He is Iraqi and he benefits from the subsidiary protection. She is from Morocco. They got married then years ago and they were living in Iraq from where they fled in 2013. In … Continuer la lecture
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Sunday 11th of June – let’s all meet at the airport to prevent 2 forced expulsions to Africa!
Be it a proved asylum seeker or the father of two small kids, the Foreigners Office is persisting. Two escorts will operate, with their well-knwon violence, at the same time at Zaventem airport, to forcibly embark two persons on two … Continuer la lecture
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Yassine was deported and arrived to Casablanca on 31st of May 2017
He was able to give us a brief phone call when arriving to Casablanca. He explained to us that he went through serious violence when boarding, he was tied and handcuffed like for every forced deportation, with systematic shots by … Continuer la lecture
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Let’s prevent the deportation of a ‘criminal’ father, this 21th of May 2017
Update : We were several at the airport, including the lawyer and one parliamentarian, to talk to the passengers. We heard that the deportation of Mahmadou had been cancelled because, so they told him, there was “no escort available”. It’s … Continuer la lecture
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Steenrock inside the closed centres
14/05/2017 CENSORSHIP AND REPRESSION The annual Steenrock festival 2017 took place on 06/05/2017 in front of the Steenokkerzeel closed centre to protest against imprisonments and deportation, with concerts, public speaking, demonstration in front of the fences of the centre, testimonies … Continuer la lecture
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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