Unauthorized Demonstration in Brussels: Legal Battle for Human Rights

2024-03-13 17:15:00

For the record, this demonstration was not authorized. Two decrees, one from the City of Brussels and one from the Brussels Region, had prohibited any public demonstration that day. The LDH and other organizations intended to respond to a Generation Identity rally (announced in Molenbeek then canceled) and “retake possession of the public space soiled by the arrival a week earlier of 450 fascist and racist hooligans at the Stock Exchange”. During the rally at Place de la Bourse, Alexis Deswaef and several other demonstrators were administratively arrested and then locked up for a few hours in the Etterbeek barracks.

“We cannot insult and harass people without consequences”

A month later, Alexis Deswaef filed a complaint against by a representative of the public force, coalition of civil servants, refusal to stop illegal detention, abuse of authority, inhuman and degrading treatment, attack on freedom of association”.

After numerous postponements, the Brussels Council Chamber issued an order dismissing the case on December 20, 2022. The civil parties appealed this decision. The case was pleaded before the indictment chamber on January 30. Who dismissed the case.

Contacted, Alexis Deswaef’s lawyer announced that he would file a new appeal. “This decision does not satisfy us at all. The fundamental principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are not respected. We will file a cassation appeal in the coming days.”

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