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07/14/05 –- Street prostitutes’ clients in Antwerp risk a fine of up to 250 euro from November on, a novelty in Belgium. In so doing, the Antwerp city council wants to tackle street prostitution, in combination with the prohibition of street prostitution applicable to the prostitutes themselves.

Last week, a first street prostitute was arraigned. Sixteen others received an ultimate or penultimate warning. Yet mayor Patrick Janssens (Socialist Party) wants to go even further. He now also takes aim at clients of illegal street prostitution. In November, Janssens will ask the city council to insert into the police code an additional article pursuant to which making use of the services of street prostitutes will be a crime.

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--Translated by Cedric Ryngaert

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