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| Paul Magnette |
He has emphasized that we have been asking the Interior Ministry for years to focus its efforts to deport first the emigrants with criminal precedents instead of expelling families who pose no threat to public order, Belgian media say.
Paul Magnette persists and signs. He repeated this Wednesday: we will not ask the Charleroi police to expel an Albanian family living in Charleroi for eight years.
It all began Monday night at the communal council were challenged by the PTB, Paul Magnette explained that he had asked to police not to execute the order of expulsion of an Albanian family. A family supported for weeks by many Carolos. But this resistance from Paul Magnette irritates the Secretary of State for asylum and migration Maggie De Block. For her, the bourgmestre of Charleroi does not respect the law. "False" responds; Paul Magnette: "I fully respect the law. The law gives me authority over the communal police and it is up to me to determine when there is a risk of disturbing public order and when does the local police come in? In this case, in this case for me, there is no problem with the public order so there is no reason for the local police to intervene."
Paul Magnette also believes that the federal government is misleading: "For years, we have been asking that the federal government put all its efforts on people in illegal situations who pose public order problems, such as in the case of drug trafficking or in the case of trafficking in human beings. We find it a bit absurd to focus our federal resources on families who do not pose problems and, at the same time, to neglect the people who pose problems to public order."
As proof, Paul Magnette puts forward a figure: only three percent of people arrested in connection with trafficking in Charleroi were returned to their country of origin.