Ten thousand demonstrators travel through Brussels for more women's rights: 'racists' from MR not welcome and sprayed with water

The demonstration was an initiative of the Feminist and Anti -Capitalist Movement World Women's Mars Belgium. With the action, she wants to warn about « the worrying decline » on women's rights and « the rights of society and politics ». The new Arizona government in particular was the head of Jut.

Various women's rights and trade unions took part in the demonstration, but also political parties. Not all parties were welcome. For example, a delegation of the French-speaking Liberal MR was booed as racists and pelted with water, so that the MR members were forced to leave the demonstration.

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It came to push and pulling between members of the MR delegation and other demonstrators, and Magali Cornelissen, former ships for MR in Ganshoren, was pushed on the ground. The politician already announced that she would submit a complaint to the police.

MR chairman Georges-Louis Bouchez showed in a post on X, the former Twitter, his display about the incident: “Militant Left tries to take over things that are universal. With that she harms this struggle and the people who benefit enormously. This radicalized and often violent militant left side is a threat to our democracy. It is funded by certain organizations that receive government money for party -political purposes. Democrats must revolt and condemn this violence. Whoever is silent is complicit in the erosion of democracy, little by little. ”

Bernard Quintin, Federal Minister of the Interior and Security for the MR and Brussels MR chairman David Leisterh also shared their indignation on the social medium.

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