Today (05/10/07) I have been following the press conference of investigative journalist Fred Loore and the former inspector Social Jean-Yves Tistaert about their book " Belgium Basement - immigration, trafficking and organized crime . This is essentially taking a lengthy investigation as a source of official reports, decisions, opinions of judges, auditors work, police and fraud experts to develop an organized inventory quite alarming activity of these networks (illegal immigration, trafficking and human trafficking, social and fiscal fraud, slavery, prostitution, terrorist financing ,...) present on Belgian territory. Given that the book evokes more trafficking and organized crime that the issue of immigration, I asked the authors if they were not afraid to stigmatize foreigners in general: "Not because foreigners are just the first victims of these channels in addition to the state and citizens. We must finish with the ostrich syndrome or because of political correctness do not see this reality underground is just encourage traffickers and social fraud. It is difficult to describe the facts without analyzing the media, without naming the realities. For example it is clear that the main victims Turkish networks are Turks, as well as the main victims of Indo-Pakistani networks are people of Indo-Pakistan , "said Frederick Loore me. " All this creates a huge social cost ", adds co-author Jean-Yves Tistaert who believes that the lack of public accountability creates " pressure on low income, encourages social dumping, fuels crime related threatens the stability of society and all supplies downstream xenophobia and latent racism in the Belgian company .
The book is frankly well-built with examples concrete and a list of deficiencies to be filled urgently by politico-judicial decision makers in the country. Some examples quickly noted in flight: the absence of legislation to jointly pursue the exploiter and the payer in the context of outsourcing cascade (see the important legislative work of Socialist MP Thierry Giet in the matter); the abscence interregional coordination in issuance of work permits ; the shortage of judges making de facto spent 3 judges to the courts ; the lack of follow in recoveries criminal fines.
About immigration, the authors point out that many sectors (construction, textile ,...) are desperately short of manpower. A representative of the Federation of Textile has even endorsed this, stating that, given the competition, companies were finally faced with a dilemma: relocate or hire labor on the parallel market? Suddenly, I wondered if, contrary to conventional wisdom, which accuses him of appeasement towards the left parties and illegal immigration thus feed the criminal networks, the migration issue is not finally a large plot on the right with a simple tactical : denounce immigration to encourage politically and economically exploited by under-funding oversight bodies and Justice. In addition, the strengthening of European migration policy does allow limited formal access to the territory but it also pushes potential migrants into the arms traffickers supplying indirectly benefit the economy of some business owners. A meditation browsing Belgium from cellar to attic ...
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