Zaventem, detention operation
A few meters from Brussels International Airport – Zaventem, you will find the Repatriation Center 127 bis and the Caricole Transit Center.
In Belgium, as in every other country in the European Union, people of foreign origin who are considered ‘illegal’ in the country because they do not have the proper papers, are detained for the purpose of deportation. These centers, located near the runways and far from media attention, have been involved in numerous scandals, yet they remain operational as never before.
A look at Europe’s deportation system, where men and women are trapped in a cycle, their lives paused by a blind and inhuman bureaucracy. Isolated from the world, their voices speak of injustice, despair, and both physical and psychological torture.
An initiative by the Getting The Voice Out collective, which supports the fight in closed centers by bringing the voices of the detainees to the outside world.
