A BELGIAN MURDERS HIS AFRICAN WIFE

Problems in relationships or marriages are very common.



What provoked a Belgian to the extent of killing his Black wife? This was the question on the lips of the African community in Antwerp. The shocking murder of Evelyn Amarim-Vanacker, a 31-year-old mother of two, led to a peaceful demonstration recently.


Evelyn, a native of the Anioma local government in the Delta State of Nigeria, was reported to have been strangled to death by her husband at their home on the 2nd of March 2009. According to sources, the murder took place while the children of the deceased, aged 4 and 1, respectively, were sleeping in one of the rooms upstairs.

After the brutal murder, the husband took the lifeless body of his wife into the boot of his car and drove 100 kilometers to dump the body in an open field by the border between France and Belgium, where the French police discovered the body the next day.

After committing the brutal crime, Mr. Vanacker reported to the Belgian police that his wife was missing. After a heavy interrogation that followed, he broke down and confessed to the killing of his wife. 

The motive behind the murder is not clear, but according to sources, there was no more happiness in the marriage after five years. Constant quarrels and exchanges of words were bringing the marriage almost to its knees when this occurred.

The question is, how would the Belgian police handle this case? Especially in Antwerp, where such cases are not seriously dealt with. This has given license to many Belgians to treat foreigners, especially Africans, the way they like.

Many Africans are angry with the African ambassadors sent overseas. "They don't do anything to protect us; all they care about is corruption and greed. Europeans know that they are weak, so they take advantage of this to kill us," said one Nigerian who spoke to me about the killing of Avelyn.

VLAAMS BELANG NOT INVITED TO OBAMA'S INAUGURATION

Philip De Winter, leader of the 'Vlaams Belang' party

Belgium has been a center of controversy many times, in regard to issues pertaining to foreigners, especially in Antwerp, which has the "Vlaams Belang," a political party known to have extreme views against foreigners. 

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They preach hatred against foreigners to solicit votes during political campaigns, yet they find it unacceptable when the American Embassy in Brussels excludes them from attending Obama's inauguration.

According to the "Vlaams Belang", weeks before the inauguration of the 44th president of the USA, Barack Obama, at the Brussels residence of the American Ambassador, all Belgian senators of the committee of Foreign Affairs received an invitation. 

However, on the morning of the inauguration day (January 20th), the US embassy made a phone call to them(Vlaams Belang) claiming the invitation was a mistake and that Vlaams Belang was not welcome.

The "Vlaams Belang" thinks the behavior of the American Embassy is inappropriate for the world's largest democratic country. They went on further to say that "It isn't the task of an embassy to become actively involved in the internal politics of another nation.

I don't understand the "Vlaams Belang" getting bitter over this non-invitation issue when they know what the USA stands for. Americans are people that had learned a lot from past issues regarding racial problems, just like former Apartheid South Africa. 

Now they don't want to repeat those mistakes they made. Changes of constitutions, laws, and other things have brought peace and unified all Americans under one democratic umbrella. This is what the world should emulate.

The "Vlaams Belang" is are selfish, and non-realistic party that doesn't care about bloodshed but preaches hatred against foreigners because they are power conscious. 

They shouldn't forget that there are also Americans living in Belgium, and whatever they say against foreigners also affects other foreign nationals living in Belgium. To me, the American Embassy has done the right thing by not giving them an invitation.

The world is tired of hearing things like "An immigrant murdered in Antwerp", "I bought a gun to kill people of foreign origin." Every investigation made in Antwerp over such cases links up with something from the "Vlaams Belang." 

If the world wants peace, then it mustn't let such political parties survive in any part of the world. They must exclude them from taking part in any international conference. Antwerp can keep them; we don't care.

Murdered Immigrant in Antwerp, family gets no compensation

Oulematu, the Malian babysitter who was murdered with the child The family of Oulematou Niangadou, the Malian babysitter, shot and killed by Hans Van Themsche in Antwerp, Belgium, will not be compensated. The commission of financial aids for victims of criminal acts announced in an official statement given to the press that the Belgian Justice Ministry decided to compensate the victims 71,500 euros,  but the court challenged the compensation to the Malian woman, owing to the fact that the victim was illegally staying in Belgium. The victim came in with a visa that has since expired. It will be recalled that in 2007, racist student Themsche bought a rifle at 500 euros from a shop in Antwerp, to kill people of foreign origin. Unfortunately, his gun didn't take away the Malian immigrant, but a poor, innocent Belgian child, the victim was babysitting.  His bullet also struck a Turkish woman sitting on a bench nearby, but she survived. The full story about this ruthless and senseless killing can be read in my book called "An African in Antwerp." In the book, I accused both the mayor of Antwerp, Mr. Janssens, and the police of being responsible for the killing of this poor immigrant. You need to live in Antwerp as a foreigner before you will know or understand what I'm talking about. How could they like foreigners when they don't even like themselves? When you are speaking French at some Flemish institutions, you can be confronted and questioned about the reason you are speaking French instead of Flemish.  Unbelievable. What is wrong with it when one speaks a different language spoken by its own nationals? That is Antwerp. Kris Luyckx, the advocate for the victim's family, hopes that the rules on compensation will be amended and points to previous changes brought in to allow victims of human trafficking to get compensation from the commission.