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“I was brought up more in the dutch language. I myself worked in coal mines for many years. I have been active in the recognition of migrants. My family, my grandfather, fought here in the first world war and this fact is still not recognised.
Last Friday there was a commemoration of migration in Genk and it was said that Moroccans arrived here in Belgium in the 1960s, this makes me angry, Moroccans have been here for 100 years. The Moroccans were deployed after the first world war in the unsafe and rebellious coal mines
because most of the capital was in Belgium at that time and had French as their mother tongue, the Moroccans were placed by France to work in the mines of Belgium. This is a theme that is very close to my heart”
participant in the assembly of We buildt this!
translated to English by Maarten