Belgium

Mohammed Enniya, his wife and their three children risk finding themselves on the street in the coming days. The Moroccan family has been trying in vain for more than a year to find new housing after the expiration of their rental contract.
"If I haven’t found anything by November 21, a bailiff will put us on the street," said Mohammed, who has been looking for new housing for more than a year. The Moroccan, his wife and their three children have been living in this CPAS (Public Social (…)

Amina Thimou, 13, will have to live the rest of her life with four fingers missing. The girl of Moroccan origin tried to throw one of the fireworks fired by minors towards the balcony of the apartment where she lives with her parents and brother, in the center of Brussels.
After an eight-hour surgical procedure, Amina finds herself without four of her fingers. "I thank the boys who harassed my son and who have injured my dear daughter for life," her father ironically protests. Mohamed (…)

Placed in pre-trial detention on August 14 last for attempted murder on her mother the day before, Dalila N., a 32-year-old woman, was presented on Thursday before the Brussels Criminal Court.
Dalila acted on August 13 last at the family home in Laeken, Belgium, after a nightmare in which she would have seen herself suffocating her mother. This is how, after waking up, the thirtysomething joined her mother who was sleeping in her bed and tried to suffocate her with a pillow. Her little (…)

Younes Agouram, a young undocumented immigrant of Moroccan origin, burned his hands while saving neighbors from a fire that broke out on the night of Thursday to Friday, rue de Fiennes in Anderlecht.
The 20-year-old young man did not hesitate to climb onto the balcony of the burning building to help the victims. "I burned my hands on the balcony railing, which was hot because of the fire," he confides to La Dernière Heure, before adding: "We managed to get someone out from their window, (…)

End in Brussels of the exceptional trial of 120 people prosecuted for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking, among other things, from Morocco. The accused were sentenced to sentences ranging from a few months to 17 years in prison.
After a long trial that took place from December 2023 to May 2024, the Brussels court finally delivered its verdict on Tuesday in this case of international drug trafficking from Morocco for which more than 120 men and women of Albanian, Colombian, (…)

The trial of the murder of Soufiane Benali, a 23-year-old man nicknamed "Nana" killed in July 2020 in Forest, Belgium, continues before the Brussels Assize Court with the indictment of the Attorney General. One of the family’s lawyers denounces "an advertising murder".
At Monday’s hearing, Redwan Mettioui, lawyer for Soufiane Benali’s family, pleaded the guilt of Mohamed-Amine Dardour, Youssef Jeddi and Younes Bakkali, all three accused of being the perpetrators or co-perpetrators of the (…)

Ahmed Selassi, an octogenarian suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, has been missing in Marcinelle (Charleroi) since October 17 and the search continues to find him.
As the hours go by, concern is growing in Charleroi since the disappearance, on Thursday, October 17, of Ahmed Selassi, 81 years old. Nearly 500 people on Saturday and 250 on Sunday participated in the search operations organized in the Charleroi region, reports Belga.
But these search operations carried out this weekend to (…)

A social movement is paralyzing Charleroi airport this Tuesday. Due to a strike by security personnel, Charleroi airport is forced to cancel all outbound flights, including four to Morocco.
The airport, which issued a press release on Monday, states that 89 flights were scheduled to depart on Tuesday, involving around 16,000 passengers. These passengers must be contacted by their airline for a rescheduling of their flight or a refund. The airport spokesperson recalled that this week (…)

Mohamed J., arrested in Morocco in 2009 and sentenced to ten years in prison after his escape from Bruges prison aboard a helicopter with Ashraf Sekkaki alias "The King of Escape", was sentenced on Friday by the Antwerp Correctional Court to forty months in prison for cocaine trafficking and one year in prison for illegal possession of weapons.
The case dates back to March 2021, when Mohamed J. had delivered 35 packages of cocaine to a certain M. O. for the sum of 958,750 euros. His (…)

The trial for the murder of Soufiane Benali, a 23-year-old man nicknamed "Nana" who was killed in July 2020 in Forest, Belgium, continues before the Brussels Assize Court. Other hearings will take place this Monday, October 14.
On Friday, the brother of Adnane Mahroug, who was injured during the shooting in the Alfred Orban street in Forest on July 5, 2020, gave his testimony. That day, he says he learned by phone that shots had been fired in the Orban neighborhood and that his brother (…)