From 1998 to 2025: it has already been 27 years since Semira Adamu, then detained at the 127bis detention centre, lost her life, murdered by police officers who suffocated her during their sixth attempt to deport her by plane.
27 years later, the fight against the detention and deportation machine continues in many forms.
The day before the demonstration on 20 September, organised in Charleroi to protest against the planned construction of a detention centre in Jumet*, we are pleased to invite you to take part in a day in memory of Semira Adamu, which will take place at the Zone Neutre collective’s occupation!
📆 Friday 19 September 2025 (12 noon-11 p.m.)
📍 Zone Neutre collective occupation – 1 Square de l’Aviation, Anderlecht (Brussels)
PROGRAMME
12 noon: Opening & bouncy castle
3 p.m.: Start of the football tournament (arrive early to register your team!)
6.30 p.m.: Collective recording of the Lance-Pierre podcast** (with Getting the Voice Out & Radio Panik) -> Note: the podcast recording will be in French only.
8 p.m.: Meal
We are planning:
🎪 A children’s area
👕 A serigraphy workshop (bring your T-shirt!)
📃 News tables
🍻 A bar
(+ more info to come on the programme)
Come along and join us!
❤ Freedom of movement and settlement for all ❤
Organised by Zone Neutre & several anti-border collectives
✊ *DEMONSTRATION IN CHARLEROI ✊
On 20 September in Charleroi, a demonstration is being organised to protest against violent, racist and inhumane Belgian and European migration policies.
❤ This march will commemorate the life and struggle of Semira Adamu, an undocumented activist killed by the police during a forced deportation in 1998. We do not forget, we do not forgive, and we continue her fight.❤
Once again this year, the mobilisation is particularly denouncing the planned detention centre in Jumet, scheduled for 2028. If it goes ahead, this centre would be the largest administrative detention and deportation facility in Belgium. It is part of a national plan initiated by the far right to criminalise, imprison and deport people who the state has deprived of their papers. Charleroi supports this project, despite local opposition from citizens. The city of Charleroi uses security-focused and racist rhetoric to justify its support, criminalising exiled people.
In memory of Semira, Mawda, Tamazi, Baudouin and so many others.
In solidarity with all those who have been abused, persecuted and killed by dehumanising migration policies.
Let us come together, demand freedom of movement and settlement for all, demand the closure of detention centres and the abandonment of plans to build these prisons that dare not speak their name. Let us demand an end to repatriations and state violence against undocumented migrants.
🥁📢See you on 20 September at 2pm, Place Buisset (Charleroi). Let’s be countless in our rejection of the political projects of the far right🥁📢
🎙️ **LANCE-PIERRE PODCAST RECORDING 🎙️
We are offering a collective recording of the 6th episode of Lance-Pierre, the podcast that breaks down borders. Lance-Pierre echoes the struggles of people detained by the Belgian state in detention centres. This podcast from Getting a Voice Out will be recorded in collaboration with Radio Panik and broadcast live on their airwaves.
In this sixth episode, we will talk about multiple forms of resistance. Those that take place during deportations, but also those that take place inside and outside detention centres (notably with the Zone Neutre collective).
Note: the podcast recording will be in French only.
