Activists hold symbolic sale of humanitarian visas for seat N-VA

For the Brussels office of the N-VA has about fifty activists this afternoon in a symbolic sale held of humanitarian visa. With their action, referred them to the alleged practices of Mechels councillor Melikan Kucam, in exchange for a bundle of money, such visas would have arranged for people from conflict areas like Syria and Iraq.

The protesters carried signs and banners bearing slogans directed against the N-VA. They sold symbolically fake visa and fake notes of 500 euros, which they referred to the fact that Kucam up to 10,000 euros asked by visa.

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To participate in the protest was called by the Mouvement workers ' movement chrétien, the French-speaking counterpart of Beweging.net, and the CSC committee for employees with and without papers. The organizations being is also the responsibility of Theo Francken, who at the time of the facts the federal state secretary for Asylum and Migration. Sharp criticism was also on the, according to the associations, the combination of inhumane immigration policies and practices that are focused on the exploitation of the resulting underground movement.