Johan Leman

What Should a Comprehensive Fight Against the Brussels Drug Mafias Entail?

What follows is a plea for an integrated approach to tackling mafia-like structures in Brussels’ drug trade. Mafia is a complex reality. Here, I interpret it in a restrictive sense, […]

Johan Leman

Garden Foyer youth work and garden museum MMM are threatened again

Along the canal, there are  opportunities for walking and biking on either side, overlooking the water. Parallel, less than 100 metres away, is the rue des Ateliers, between place Sainctelette […]

Johan Leman

How irresponsible can Brussels politicians be!

Can the public know what our Brussels representatives have been doing for months? They collect their salaries… but for what exactly?To issue vetoes and keep inventing new ones? First against […]

Johan Leman

How active is the Muslim Brotherhood here in Brussels?

Yesterday, I spoke with a teacher from a French-speaking secondary school in Brussels.She told me that some colleagues are really struggling in their classrooms, for example, when discussing a theater […]

Johan Leman

Some Brussels civil servant ‘ivory towers’

An anecdote. One day, we received on Foyer  a threat of a fine via a form with the title “délabrement de la maison”. An official had noticed that we had […]

Johan Leman

May the government take a more pragmatic approach to migration management

In Italy, over 800 million euros have already been spent to construct a closed center in Albania, where asylum seekers from “safe countries of origin” can be sent after arriving […]

Johan Leman

Best Wishes for Christmas and New Year!

Johan Leman

Polarisation – Radicalisation

Let us base ourselves briefly on some experiences of the last few years in the Foyer work. Regarding the possibility of radicalisation, the age is dropping and we see this […]

Johan Leman

How to deal with Islamism at school?

Following the publication about the fact that teachers in some schools would not dare to discuss some topics that are part of the prescribed program. To be clear: at Foyer […]

Johan Leman

Brussels, One Single Police Zone?

From recent conversations with several police inspectors, I’ve learned that in Brussels, there’s a growing belief that Police organization will need to become more large-scale and cross-municipal than it is […]