Refugees Deeply | 17.01.2018
Belgium’s controversial migration minister Theo Francken survived claims that he deported Sudanese migrants back into harm’s way. Flor Didden from the Flemish North-South Movement warns that more returns will mean more scandals.
Flor Didden
In the end Belgium’s government survived. A three-week-long crisis provoked by accusations that the secretary of state for migration and asylum, Theo Francken, had deported migrants to face a dangerous situation in Sudan ended with little more than a reprimand.
The Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, and his coalition partners survived an opposition push for a vote of no confidence, and a human rights fiasco was chalked up as another communications gaffe by Francken.