They don’t have a place to stay

A file photo of asylum seekers organising their belongings at a makeshift tent camp in Brussels. — AP

THE empty building on Rue de la Loi street in Brussels is crowded and run-down, but the roughly 100 asylum seekers who are squatting there say they have nowhere else to go if police carry out an eviction order.

“We don’t know what to do – if we leave, we won’t have a place to stay,” said Amil, a 30-year-old man from Afghanistan, who asked not to use his full name.