Eunice Nancy Osayande was a Nigerian woman who was trafficked to Belgium for prostitution and was murdered in Brussels in June when she was 23 years old. A street in Brussels was named after her in Osayande was trafficked to Belgium in after being led to believe she would be able to find acting work in the country.
Osayande was killed on the night of June by a client who stabbed her multiple times. She was 23 years old. Their demands included better police protection and rights for the sector.
On 20 June , police, using CCTV and fingerprint evidence, arrested a year-old youth on a charge of murder. Named as S. He said he had taken cannabis and cocaine on the day of murder and had lost control after a failed sexual encounter and a dispute about payment. The prosecution sought a sentence of 25 years imprisonment, while recognising two attenuating circumstances, namely the fact that he was a minor at the time of the crime and the fact that as a child he had been subjected to violence by his father.
The defence argued that a sentence of 15 years would allow his conditional release after five years and see that he did not progress from a youth detention centre to the corrupting influence of prison. In January , four people involved in the trafficking of Osayande were sentenced to up to four years imprisonment. In September , the City of Brussels announced that it would name a street after Osayande, saying that it wished to draw attention to "forgotten women who are victims of human trafficking, sexual violence and femicides".
The council, as part of an initiative to make public spaces more inclusive, had already named a number of streets after notable women but it was the first time a street had been named after a sex worker. City of Brussels deputy Ans Persoons said: "Feminism for us is not just about women who excel. Inclusive feminism is about women's rights and struggles at every social rank. Rue Eunice N. Osayande straat was inaugurated on 16 June The inauguration was attended by dozens of people.
