This Monday morning, it was still the status quo: in the future between federal crisis, the police do not show wanting to evict the occupants. However, it has always blocked this building since this Sunday evening.
The building had been taken over a few hours earlier by around seventy asylum seekers, rue Georges Matheus in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Many police officers are still present and control the entrances to the building, but they do not carry out an expulsion, which was feared by the asylum seekers since the police force has accumulated for a few hours.
“Police set up ‘siege’ rather than eviction it seems“, commented the spokesperson for the collective Stop the reception crisis this Sunday evening. “All entrances are controlled by the police, which prevents any entry of food, blankets, water, etc. They seem to want to play exhaustion“, he added.
