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WE WILL NEVER SAY IT ENOUGH : MIGRATION POLICIES ARE KILLING, BE IT AT THE BORDER OR AFTER

The Belgian State want to chase the criminals ? They’d better start with themselves (and leave the rest of the world in peace) !

SUICIDE AT THE CLOSED CENTRE IN MERKSPLAS

A Moroccan man who had been detained in the closed centre of Merksplas for two months was found dead this morning by his codetainees of block n°4. He hanged himself.
It had been a week already since he hadn’t fed himself and he was not feeling well at all.

The management of the closed centre tried to calm the situation, even to play the matter down. The man had left a letter that the management refused to show to the detainees. The latter are furious with this censorship and accuse the centre because no one intervened while they perfectly knew that the man was feeling very bad and that he was not feeding himself anymore.

They refuse to eat today April 2nd 2015 and ask for contacts with the outside, especially with journalists.

« They treat us like animals”.
« Nobody worries about us”.
« He was right. There is no solution, I also want to die !”

Since 1 p.m. the detainees of Merksplas no longer answer the phone… to be continued…

IMMOLATION IN FRONT OF THE FOREIGNERS OFFICE

This morning also, at the headquarters of FEDASIL in the Foreigners Office, a man set fire to himself.
This Guinean man, 25 years old, had introduced his request in 2008.
He headed to the place around 11 a.m. He went to the toilet, he sprayed himself with essence and came out in fire.
He is still alive but in a very critical condition, his days are numbered.

One year ago already, a dead body was discovered in strange and shady circumstances. As regards immolations, it must have been at least the third attempt since one year.
That is how the world is rotten and twisted.
That is how bureaucracy has the authority over people’s life and death. That is how Belgium (and all her EU colleagues) grabs hundreds of thousands of people by the throat. She grabs them by the throat, bleeds themselves dry to get a single euro (215 euros per regularisation request), treats them like cattle for a cost-effective productivity (who can still believe that the State doesn’t take advantage of undeclared work ??), squeezes the very last drop out of them, spins their head on the citrus press while injecting them a very deep and constant fear. Day after day, year after year, each second passing by brings the fear of being controled, arrested, imprisoned, deported, tortured, murdered… When each seconds brings all this, how not to go nuts ? Besides, all this psychological torture, all this misery, all this pressure those people have to go through is just to obtain a piece of paper.
That is how the world is decayed and twisted. It is a simple stamp on a sheet of paper (with all the repressive state apparatus mingled in the ink of that stamp) that will grant or not the right to breathe rather than to suffocate, the right to live rather than to survive.
And if one wants to take fresh air by themselves, like the two detainees of Vottem who tried to escape last night, they directly bring you to solitary confinement.
How could one be surprised that people are not cracking in the middle of all this ?
The time for astonishment is over, it is time for anger now.

Brussels: In the district of Haren people are occupying a terrain at the Keelbeek-site where the Belgian government is hoping to construct the biggest prison building ever built in Belgium. They call the terrain ZAD (zone a defendre/ zone to defend) Keelbeek and call themselves Patatists, since they want to fight the prison project by planting potatoes. On february the 19th, a private enterprise started to close off 9 hectares of cultivable green land with fences. Fencing of this land might mean that all the living creatures on this land will die soon. But this will happen without the will of the people occupying the terrain; their friends and people living in the communtity of Haren. They want to bring more live to the community and are therefore against the construction of the maxi-prison. The Keelbeek site is threathened by a nearby construction of the new prison, designed to host 1200 prisoners. The procedure is avancing pretty fast, people will be informed about the construction and given the chance to utter their opinion next spring, the construction work is planned to start in may.

The activists of the Keelbeek site are angry that one half of the terrain is already fenced of, rending it inaccesable and this without even obtaining a construction permission. They believe that there are big contraints regarding the democratic partitipation and that there is a big lac of transparancy regarding financements. They also believe that building a new prison is causing new problems, it doesn’t solve any problem. Covering a big terrain with a lot of cultivating potential with concrete: they say no to this kind of future and urgently invite other people to occupy the terrain.

The location is easy to reach, it takes about 10 minutes with the train from Brussels Nord. Since winter is over, alot of help is expected to help preparing the seedlings, and to take care of the goats and the chickens. There are places to sleep, be sure to bring a sleeping bag.

Other ways of helping the ZAD Keelbeek:

-Pass trough the information
-Bring burning wood and construction material
-Participate to the opinion assembly of the construction (enquete publique)
-Buy “Zadinneke”, a blond belgian beer to support the Patatists in their struggle
-Sending financial contributions to: collectif vrije Keelbeek libre ! Compte Argenta BE21 9731 2423 4503

During the weekend of april the 17 till april the 19th a festive agricultural summit will take place at the Keelbeek site, as a participation to the international action days for agricultural struggles.

More information: haren.luttespaysannes.be – keelbeek(at)sdu.collectifs.net

After the first coming consequences of the “Article 63§2” decree, the unemployed in Belgium are engaged in a social battle. This decree has been voted in 2011 by the socialist Di Ruppo government in Belgium, this without even consulting the parliament. The law was first applicated on january the 1st, 2012. It says in big terms that those who are older than 30 years and benefite from financial aid for unemployed, will no longer be financed for maximum 3 years. Since this law was aplicated first in 2012, only now in 2015 the first unemployed people with the age of 30 will feel the consequences. (Continued)

French prosecution” esteems there are no strong illegal elements in the justice case of Saidou, singer of the French anti-racist rap band ZEP (Zone d’Expression Populaire), and sociologist Saïd Bouamama.
(Continued)

CALL

On the 25th of January the fascist group Sauvons Calais are planning a march against migration at Place d’Armes at 2 am.

Now is the time for movement – we call for migration and any action attacking the fascism we see rise around us. In Calais we see more fascist gatherings, more threats, whilst the occupation of life by the state is ongoing. More and more the cops impose their control on the streets, jungles, houses, places were we live and sleep, our movements, the harbour and the highways, the parkings and the gas stations. Still the deaths caused by the border regime continue. The law of Europe. The fascist voices getting more seats in the shiny parliamentary rooms. (Continued)