‘Ibis Brussels South’, it is as tourists know Charleroi airport as ‘Brussels South Airport’. Because the hotel where 172 asylum seekers have been staying since yesterday is located just across the border from the Brussels Region in sleepy Flemish Ruisbroek. The hotel is located between a maze of ribbon development and industrial estates, where all metropolitan problems seem far away. Until now. “But at least we are safe here,” the asylum seekers say.
Brecht Neven
16-02-23, 18:36
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