Man climbs onto the roof of notorious squat in Brusselse Paleizenstraat (Brussels)
In Schaerbeek, a man climbed on the roof of a building on Sunday afternoon that has been occupied for several months by several hundred homeless people, asylum seekers and people in illegal residence. This is reported by the local police of Brussels North. He had closed the street to all traffic, but in between the man has already descended from the roof. What was the reason for his act is still confused.
Source: BELGA
Several hundred homeless people, asylum seekers and people in illegal residence, including unaccompanied foreign minors, have been staying in the squat for several months now. A few weeks ago, the Croix-Rouge de Belgique, the French-speaking department of the Red Cross in our country, opened a mobile emergency clinic at the building. Doctors have already identified several cases of tuberculosis, as well as worrying cases of cutaneous diphtheria and a very high spread of scabies.
At the request of Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Nicole De Moor, a mobile team from Fedasil has been sent on site to recognize asylum seekers in order to transfer them to medical reception centers. Last Thursday, 369 people who died in the squat in the Paleizenstraat were screened. 368 of them turned out to be applicants for international protection, one person was not.