(12 Dec 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of European Union building site in Brussels
2. Various of police inspecting site
3. Mid of construction workers at building site
4. Various of police detaining workers
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian De Coninck, Brussels Chief of Police:
"This is a building from the European Union. But they asked contractors to build and so I suppose that we will have a lot of puzzling to do, to find who's who in this building; because there are contractors, subcontractors and so on."
6. Cutaway to police forces, investigator taking on mobile phone
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian De Coninck, Brussels Chief of Police:
"Well, the Brussels' local police have done a control action here in the building and we are controlling the workers here, looking if they are legally in the country, if they have identity papers with them."
8. Mid of police at building site
9. Tilt down from European Union building to police
10. Mid of police investigator walking at building site
11. Wide of Police vans
12. Mid of police van with detained workers from building site
13. Mid of police van
14. Police vans in front of European Union Council building
STORYLINE:
The Belgian police raided a European Union (EU) building construction site in Brussels on Tuesday to check for illegal workers.
Police spokesman Christian De Coninck said 15 workers were detained and taken away for questioning after the morning raid at the 14-story building, situated in the Belgian-capital's EU quarter, just across from the headquarters of the European Commission.
"We have a lot of puzzling to do, to find out who is who in this building, because there are contractors and subcontractors," De Coninck said.
"We are controlling the workers here, looking if they are legally in the country, if they have identity papers with them," he added.
Around 200 police officers were involved in the action, along with police dogs and 20 vehicles.
It was not known how many workers were at the site at the time of the raid.
A phone call to a spokesman at the EU's Council of Ministers, which will use the building when completed in 2007, was not immediately answered.
The building is to house 1,300 translators.
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