In Brussels
Dozens of mattresses on the floor, one next to the other.
Clothes lines to dry clothes and have a little more privacy.
Plastic bags where personal effects are collected.
In Brussels, the Beguinage church has become a makeshift camp.
Some 250 undocumented migrants - men, women and children - have lived there for nearly six months as the Covid crisis deprived them of the meager means of subsistence they had before.
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Mustafa, a 42-year-old Moroccan man with a hollow face, is lying down.
He has trouble speaking.
“I'm waiting for papers.
You need papers to work, ”he
confides in a barely audible voice.
Derar, a 30-year-old Algerian musician by training, seems a little more valiant.
He has lost 20 kg, but he is standing and does not intend to retreat.
“People are doing badly because of the Belgian state.
Here the police are everywhere, but justice is nowhere.
If I apply for papers, they refuse.
I am
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