The author, who is also a teacher at the IHECS in Brussels, explains in the preamble all his disappointment of a city which he still called twelve years ago “my beautiful”. “”This island preserved of sweetness and calm, far from the violence of the capitals of the great fallen empires that surround it. Calm before the storm, because I should have suspected, rather than being in denial, that the germs of the implosion of this model of peaceful coexistence were already sown ” Can we read in the free.
Today, it would only be disillusions! His reproach dates into a question that he simply poses: comment the capital of the European Union […] Has it transformed, in less time than it takes to live it, into a cloaca of dirt, poverty, dangerousness and intolerance? Sébastien Boussois then lists his chain of grievances: areas of non-right, multiple heavy weapons, disaster-based commercial arteries, dilapidation of whole districts, ineffective police, kings prosecutor threatened by drug traffickers, resignation of authority, bankruptcy of the left in power …
“A public debt that increases as quickly as the trash bags in the dirty streets”: an information site loaded Brussels
Obviously to the right of the political spectrum, Boussois also tackles this “left” in the helm in the Brussels region. He uses the words of laxity, clientelism, weakness to note his political bulletin in the capital. The usual chorus also arrives on the importation of “new lifestyles”. Obviously hear: foreigners! Which would lead to too many compromises, too many communitarianisms, too much ghettolation. In the JDD, he lets go without detour “Brussels has become in a few years a city that has probably welcomed too many people who came here out of spite “.
Very reassembled, the author who claims his binationality and therefore his right to criticize the region, even compares Brussels to a city of the Third World in the making. Worse, Brussels would never have been a small capital chosen by accident as the capital of Europe. Hard ! The institutional aspect of Belgium does not escape it, in this country in “permanent stay”. The city and the region have no money: how can we still hear this when this country has six governments (!), So many ministers and cabinets for only just under 12 million inhabitants?
Sébastien Boussois ends up making a warning addressed directly to the current mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. “It becomes urgent that Paris is also fully aware of it before the capital of France also became a cesspool”.
