Brussels Crisis: Dozens of Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors Left Homeless After Shelter Closure

These minors found themselves on the street following the closure in mid-July of the accommodation structure dedicated to them and managed by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) in partnership with the Citizen Platform, SOS Jeunes and Caritas, citing insufficient means, recalls MSF.

Of the 80 minors taken care of in July by MSF and its partners, only 29 found "emergency accommodation solutions within structures that are completely unsuitable," while the others found themselves on the street, the organization points out, calling on the authorities to concretize "in a lasting way" structures adapted to the reception of these young people "with multiple vulnerabilities."

According to MSF, unaccompanied foreign minors (Mena) are increasingly being left to their own devices on the streets of Brussels. "This worrying situation is by no means new and is illustrated year after year," deplores the organization, adding that "this crisis is to be placed in a context of global migration crisis."

Questioned about the situation, the spokesperson for the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, indicated that the government was looking for a solution to the problem posed by the building housing the now closed accommodation structure, "which belongs to the Brussels Region and not to the federal government." "But the resumption of the project is planned for September," she said.