As the residents of Brussels know, the centre of the city has a street where several Chinese businesses, such as restaurants, a travel agency, a Chinese hairdresser, and a few Chinese supermarkets are concentrated.
Since the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party by The Epoch Times, and the spreading of the 'Quit the CCP' phenomenon, this area has regularly seen several people setting up an information booth where the local Chinese community and passersby are informed about the Nine Commentaries and the ongoing persecutions and human rights violations in the Chinese communist regime.
According to one of the organizers "At first several local Chinese were suspicious and reluctant to take the materials. However, gradually the situation started to change and now more and more people accept the Nine Commentaries and other documents."
Local Belgian legislation requires the organizers of any event, however small, to apply for a permit at the police station, which is granted and signed by the mayor of the city. Normally these applications are a mere formality. The organizers, nevertheless, informed The Epoch Times newspaper that after filing the application for the month of April they were contacted by the Belgian police.
Chinese Embassy Pushes Business to Complain
One of the organizers explained "To my surprise I learned that an official complaint against us was filed at the police station by the owner of one of the biggest Chinese supermarkets in Brussels. The complaint contained all sorts of claims that are manifestly not correct, such as the statement that we block the entrance of the supermarket and prohibit customers to enter. We are not against Chinese supermarkets or any other Chinese business in Brussels. On the contrary, the more customers pass by the happier we are, as they are all people we can inform about the crimes committed by the Chinese communist party..."
According to local police sources the owner of the supermarket was pressured by the Chinese embassy to file a complaint against whoever distributes the Nine Commentaries and other materials at this busy spot in front of the supermarket where lots of local Chinese pass by to do their weekly shopping.
It seems odd that a foreign embassy tries to meddle in the public life in the streets of Brussels, the capital of Europe. Even more so for the agents of the Chinese communist regime, which are known as strong adherents of the principle of 'non intervention in internal affairs of a state', especially when the words 'human rights' are mentioned.
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