Brussels MP Mathias Vanden Borre wants to follow the model used in Antwerp, with a concentrated area for window prostitution and a ban on street prostitution.
The main measure to tackle the prostitution problem is to work on inter-municipal coordination and harmonisation of the approach to prostitution. That is exactly the same approach as the previous plan. This formula has not made any progress in recent decades, which Rudi Vervoort also has to admit. The municipalities of Schaerbeek, Brussels City and Saint-Josse-ten-Node do not cooperate in the slightest and are muddling along individually, which means that problems persist. The problems in the Alhambra neighbourhood and Louizalaan street prostitution and the Brabant neighbourhood window prostitution and illegal prostitution in pubs are well known.
Sex workers and clients urinate in portals, drug dealing is apparently normal, and exploitation, human trafficking and violence are also frequent. In short, sex workers and local residents have to work and live in unsafe and undignified conditions because the government is failing them. That must change, Mathias Vanden Borre says. The emergency and security services are present in the demarcated area, with checks on the hygiene and human dignity of the working conditions. We also want to appoint a prostitution officer, who would be tasked with making all the services involved work together more effectively.
In addition, the Municipalities Law and the joint police regulations must be amended to make GAS municipal administrative sanction fines possible. The Council of State also indicates that the Region is uniquely in a position to take legislative action. Brussels cannot afford any more stagnation, according to Mathias Vanden Borre. For example, we want street prostitution to be banned and punished firmly with GAS fines. The idea is that the affected areas can be revived, but also that sex workers are better supervised.
The way symptoms are now tackled is dire and unworthy of a capital city. History News Contact. Drugs, exploitation, human trafficking and violence The problems in the Alhambra neighbourhood and Louizalaan street prostitution and the Brabant neighbourhood window prostitution and illegal prostitution in pubs are well known.
