According toDe Morgen, the Flemish nationalist party N-VA has filed a complaint at the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism against Le Soir. The French language Belgian daily is accused of “incitement to racism and hatred”. Immediate cause is the publication of an opinion piece against a decree that provides that only Flemish-speaking Belgians are allowed to live in certain new development areas around Brussels. Le Soir has compared the decree to the torture of Al Qaeda members by the US army, and illustrated the article with a photo (left) of a mass grave of victims of ethnic cleansing in Nigeria. Bart De Wever of the N-VA says he is “fed up with the Flemish being compared to mass murderers.”
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