Brussels Correspondent - For ten days, his movie has been accessed more than 300,000 times on You Tube. Kris Janssens, a Flemish living in Brussels, gave a face to mobilize citizen born in Belgium, following the failure of one of the umpteenth attempts to resolve the political and institutional crisis.One morning when he heard an official of the Flemish Christian Democrat party CD & V, invite them to "think calmly" to the situation he has, he says, had a stroke. The country was already in crisis for over 200 days ... He has since recorded spontaneously and one shot, his message. "I just wanted to say what I thought, personally," said the young reporter from the Flemish radio station Radio Twee.
That day, he unleashes his ras-le-bol, reflects the sense of urgency that hangs over a portion of the population and calls the show to go Dutch by taking a francophone by the arm ... The success is overwhelming. The video is subtitled spontaneously in several languages, by Internet. Kris Janssens is flooded with messages of support often, sometimes insults come from the Flemish nationalist circles.
"It is a shame and not funny, because I did, I insulted anyone, I wanted to be constructive," says this young man to the leisurely pace in his apartment on the 21st floor of a tower Place Saint-Josse, the heart of a neighborhood in Brussels. Sunday, he will appear with, hopefully, a few thousand of his countrymen.
After his call, other initiatives were born on the Net. A "virtual site" before the Prime Minister of current affairs, Yves Leterme, has mobilized tens of thousands of people. Men - including a minister of the regional government of Brussels - have followed the call of the actor Benoit Poelvoorde and let their beards grow.
And then, students, Dutch and French, have launched a website, "Shame" (Shame), calling the parade to be held Sunday in the capital. They hope to mobilize "10 000 to 30 000 people around a slogan a bit hazy: the need to establish a government. Which? To do what? To each to decide, it seems.
Intended as politically neutral, "neither unionist nor Belgica", deprived of slogans, the parade is supposed to allow different currents of opinion to say their anger, anxiety or rejection of nationalist reaction and identity embodied by the New Flemish Alliance ( EVN), the leader Bart De Wever.
It is against the latter being essentially mobilized the two major communities of artists gathered Friday night at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS), mecca of cultural life in Brussels. The singer Arno, the designer Philippe Geluck, the writer Pierre Mertens, singers, dancers, actors and artists have expressed in their own way, their wish to pursue harmonious coexistence within the Belgian federal space .
Kris Janssens, he said only hope that the political world "will finally sound better, because there he exaggerates. He rejects it, the "semantic issues": "I was born in East Flanders, I live in Brussels, Europe is essential to my eyes." And he hopes "a strong signal" to mobilize Sunday.
Jean-Pierre Stroobants
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