Dozens of people have today for the station of Schaerbeek protested against the construction of the gevangenisdorp in Hair. It was, inter alia, to neighbourhood and environmental organisations.
“The project is three times toxic”, said Jean-Baptiste Godinot of Hairs Observatory today during the action for the train station of Schaerbeek. “In the first place, it is toxic to the gevangenisbeleid, because the more prisons are built, the more people that fill it. In addition, it is extremely expensive, and there is the risk of a further load of the rechtsbudget, which is already very limited,” he explained. “The project is also toxic in the environment area. The building is on the site of Keelbeek, which has 18 hectares of biodiversity in the smoke is gone”, he adds, there.
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“The third reason is a democratic. The project is opaque. The consortium Cafasso, that the prison will manage the date of the work has already been committed, while the licences may be cancelled by the Council of State. This is not acceptable,” said Godinot. After a few speeches started the demonstrators in a march from the station of Schaerbeek to Hair, under the supervision of a politiebrigade.
The gevangenisdorp of Hair will accommodate up to 1190 inmates, spread across multiple entities. The new prison complex is intended to be the outdated prisons in Saint-Gilles, forest and Berkendael to replace.
