Belgium: Brussels Names Street After Murdered Nigerian Hooker

People actually paid to have sex with this thing

There is bravery, and then there is double bravery.

Getting murdered while being a prostitute from Nigeria is some new kind of triple bravery.

BBC:

The city of Brussels has said it will name a new street after a murdered Nigerian sex worker, as part of a wider campaign to recognise women in Belgium.

The city council said the street will be bear the name of Eunice Osayande, who was stabbed to death by one of her customers in June 2018.

Drawn by the promise of work and a brighter future in Europe, Ms Osayande came to the Belgian capital in 2016.

She believed the men who invited her there were acting agents who were going to make her a film star. In reality, they were human traffickers.

Wow, what a dirty and hard to predict trick.

Once in Brussels, she was immediately forced into prostitution. She was told she owed the smuggling gang €45,000 (£38,000; $52,000) for her transit, pimps and rent.

In the weeks leading up to her death, she had contacted a sex worker charity and told them she was experiencing violence and intimidation while working. She feared she couldn’t go to the police because she was an undocumented migrant.

In June 2018, at the age of 23, Ms Osayande was stabbed 17 times by a customer in the Gare du Nord district.

Yeah, that’s what we call an “occupational hazard.”

Still, hooking is about six million times safer than logging.

And there are no streets named after dead loggers.

I wonder why?

Is it because men’s lives don’t matter? 

Protests led by the migrant sex worker community in Brussels soon erupted. The marchers demanded better working conditions and called on local authorities to create clear legal guidelines for the sector.

Prostitution is not illegal in Belgium but there are no unified national rules.

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Maxime Maes, director of the UTSOPI sex workers union in Brussels, organised the march.

“Eunice’s death has been extremely distressing, especially for undocumented migrants in the area where she worked,” she told the BBC.

“The area has seen increasing violence and the most marginalised women are targeted.”

A 17-year-old man was charged with Ms Osayande’s murder and is awaiting trial. Four members of the trafficking ring were also arrested and in January this year received prison sentences of up to four years.

By naming a new street after Ms Osayande, the City of Brussels said it wanted to draw attention to all the “forgotten women who are victims of human trafficking, sexual violence and femicides”.

The street will be the first named after a sex worker in the country, according to Belgium broadcaster RTBF.

It’s probably the first street named after a hooker in any country, frankly.

I’m not even against it.

After all, they named an entire town in Maryland after the comedian Chevy Chase, who really wasn’t funny after he left Saturday Night Live. I watched Fetch and thought it really sucked.

I think Chevy Chase, Maryland should be renamed “Blowjob Annie, Maryland.”

The new street, which will be in the north of Brussels city, is part of an ongoing initiative by the council to name more areas after women.

The council has already named streets after several notable women, including resistance fighters Yvonne Nèvejean and Andrée De Jongh, and a bridge after Suzan Daniel, a Belgian LGBT activist.

But Ans Persoons, Alderwoman for the city of Brussels, said: “Feminism for us is not just about women who excel.

“Inclusive feminism is about women’s rights and struggles at every social rank.”

Yeah, when you start including Nigerian hookers among your political heroes, you’ve definitely gotten very inclusive.

I don’t think anyone can really argue that.

There are other potential discussions about what exactly is going on here, but inclusiveness is not among them.