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Asylum crisis in Belgium: A symptom of failing European migration policies?

Coming from Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East, hundreds of people come knocking each morning at the door of the refugee office in Brussels, to seek asylum in Belgium.

Overwhelmed, the registration centre of Fedasil, which deals with asylum requests, can no longer cope. Humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm.

“You see, the people sleeping here are often people who tried to get in yesterday, and the day before, but couldn't," says Helene Asselman, Coordinator for Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen. "They have to come back tomorrow or the day after. In the meantime, they have no rights in Belgium, they have no status, they are not legal residents. Even people who have already applied have no access to shelters. Especially single men."

“We are in a difficult psychological state," says Muhammad Mahani a Palestinian asylum seeker. "We've been in Belgium for four months and they didn't give us accommodation, or Sim cards. We live in this freezing cold. We immigrated to build our future.But what we saw in our country, we see here now."

A few meters away from the asylum application centre, the association Médecins Sans Frontières has set up mobile clinics, the same that it uses in war zones.

“There is a health situation that’s quite worrying," says David Vogel, Advocacy Officer for Médecins Sans Frontières. "There is an epidemic of scabies which is hard to control in Brussels since people, without accommodation, go back to their squat in the evening, or to the street. We also had 17 cases of suspected diphtheria, three of which were confirmed by laboratories. There is a very significant deterioration in the mental health of this public. With prolonged exposure to the street, on top of difficult migratory journeys, punctuated

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