Where’s democracy? Brussels bars large demonstration against UN Migration Pact
A planned march against the UN Migration Pact in Brussels has been barred by the city’s mayor and the region’s Prime Minister, Belgian newspaper HLN reports.
“We cannot allow a ‘brown march’ in Brussels,” mayor Phillippe Close and regional Prime Minister Rudi Vervoort say.
The march, which was organised by several patriotic groups and nationalist political party Vlaams Belang was planned on Sunday.
On social media around 45,000 people showed their interest in the march against the UN pact, that makes migration a human right.
Officials in Brussels fear the manifestation could spread to other parts of the city and therefore the mayor made the decision to prohibit it.
“We thought the decision was made because of the terror attack in Strasbourg [on the Christmas market], but the problem doesn’t seem to be the safety of the protesters, but their right to unite and of freedom of speech,” march organiser Filip Brusselsmans says.
Ironically, he adds that the prohibition makes him think of “totalitarian regimes”.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/wheres-democracy-brussels-bars-large-demonstration-against-un-migration-pact/