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Pauline Fonsny

To the Living

  • Documentary
RELEASE

2019-04-07

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

27 min

Description

Semira Adamu arrived in Belgium in 1998 when she fled from Nigeria. Held in a closed detention centre next to Brussels Airport, she died smothered with a cushion during a sixth attempt at forced repatriation. 20 years later, Pauline Fonsny re-enacts this “State assassination” that shook the country and led to the resignation of the Minister of the Interior at the time.

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