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The mayor of Sint-Joost-ten-Noode, Emir Kir, has issued a police order to cancel the summit of European legal conservatives. Officers from the area are on site to execute the order.
This concerns the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon), a meeting to which about forty prominent figures from the conservative, religious and extreme right are invited. They include Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former British Minister Suella Braverman, former European Parliament member Nigel Farage, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and French writer and politician Éric Zemmour. European Parliament Member for Vlaams Belang Tom Vandendriessche was also on the speakers list.
The controversial conference first had to move from the Concert Noble in Brussels to the Sofitel Brussels Europa hotel in Etterbeek. But after it became apparent that the meeting could not take place there either, the organizers moved to the Claridge event hall in Sint-Joost-ten-Noode. The conference started there on Tuesday morning around 8 am, much to the dismay of mayor Emir Kir.
He immediately made it clear that he would do everything he could to have the meeting canceled. He has now also taken steps towards this. “There is a risk of disruption of public order if this conference takes place,” Kir said. “Based on the advice of my police chief and the Ocad (Coordinating Body for Threat Analysis, ed.), I have decided to issue a police order to ban the event with immediate effect.”
On the Bruzz website, the mayor adds that “the municipality has absolutely not given permission for this event”. Police officers from the area came to the event hall to execute the order “immediately” and thus end the conference.
