Belgium

Bad news for travelers departing for Morocco from Charleroi. All Ryanair flights to the kingdom have been cancelled this Thursday, February 13.
The day promises to be complicated for those who had planned to take the plane. Brussels Airport has announced the color: due to a social movement affecting handling and security personnel, and in the face of the prospect of "strong disruptions", no passenger flights will be operated from Zaventem.
The airlines are responsible for directly (…)

In Brussels, many teenagers aged between 13 and 17 are involved in drug trafficking. Mostly from Morocco, these minors are exploited by criminal networks to deliver drugs to consumers.
According to Europol, these "small hands" of drug trafficking work for 70% of criminal organizations in Europe. Who are these minors and how do they join these networks? Undocumented for the most part, they are from Morocco or Algeria. "I arrived in Belgium two months ago, we are all lost here, no one is (…)

To stop the violence related to drug trafficking in Brussels (Belgium), a journalist specializing in crime issues recommends "tackling the drug barons who, in complete safety from Dubai, Turkey and Morocco, direct their troops on the ground and are directly responsible for drug-related violence."
In total, three shootings occurred in three days in Anderlecht. A surge of violence that is worrying and questioning. "The street violence related to drugs in the streets of Brussels is not new, (…)

Many flights departing and arriving at Brussels Airport are expected to be canceled due to the national demonstration on Thursday, February 13 and the announced strike of a "large number" of airport handling and security personnel. Morocco could be affected by these movements.
The activity of Brussels Airport is likely to experience disruptions due to this Thursday’s demonstration. "Airlines will directly contact passengers affected by a flight cancellation or postponement," Brussels (…)

The Sekkaki brothers, of Moroccan origin, are involved in several thefts, robberies and escapes in Belgium. And that’s not all. They are now linked to international drug trafficking.
The Sekkaki family is originally from northern Morocco. Mohamed Sekkaki, born in Douar Aghlid Imzouren, a small village south of Al Hoceima, moved with his wife Faiza to Belgium. The couple settled in Mechelen, in a modest residence across from the Racing Mechelen football stadium. Mohamed and Faiza had nine (…)

Victim of a violent attack in the back of a cafe in Saint-Gilles in July 2023, Amine El Aamri, 20, succumbed to his injuries. After nearly two years of investigation, justice is considering referring the case to the criminal court. The victim’s family, of Moroccan origin, cries out for injustice.
The young man was found dying, near Place Bara in Anderlecht, before being taken to the hospital. According to the investigation, he would have been the victim of a violent attack not far from (…)

Prosecuted before the Bruges criminal court for having exploited migrants, two Moroccans, managers of chicken slaughterhouses in Kortrijk and Ingelmunster, deny the facts, simply recognizing undeclared work. They risk heavy prison sentences.
It all started with a complaint filed by a victim against Omar Z., a 40-year-old Moroccan who was running an illegal chicken slaughterhouse with his brother Salah, 32, in a warehouse in Kortrijk, later transferred to another warehouse in Zulte. On (…)

Othman El Ballouti, 37, is one of the first cocaine traffickers to fructify his illegal activities in Dubai. Since his last conviction in 2013, he has disappeared from the radar. He is not the subject of any arrest or search warrant.
The drug trafficker grew up in Borgerhout, in a family of four brothers and three sisters. For him, going to school was a waste of time. His only ambition was to become a millionaire, he admitted to his teachers at the SISO 2 school in Deurne. The young man (…)

Nordin El Hajjioui, nicknamed "Dikke Nordin", will be tried on May 7 by the Antwerp Correctional Court in the "Bombs and Grenades" case. This file, which deals with arms and drug trafficking, also involves about fifty other defendants.
The man of Moroccan origin had been extradited from the United Arab Emirates to Belgium in March 2023, but this extradition did not cover the "Bombs and Grenades" case. A supplementary procedure was therefore necessary for Nordin El Hajjioui to be tried in (…)

Jane Benzaquen, 71, claims to be the hidden daughter of King Hassan II of Morocco. This Belgian-Israeli woman has seized the Belgian justice system to have her filiation recognized, which has triggered a real legal battle with the Moroccan government.
Ms. Benzaquen claims that her mother, Cécile Benzaquen, would have had an affair with Hassan II when he was still crown prince. She relies on a genetic analysis that "has established that she cannot have a Belgian-Belgian origin," calling (…)