Belgium

In Belgium, the son of a Moroccan woman was sentenced to six years in prison for the attempted murder of his romantic rival and one year in prison for possession of cannabis. Dissatisfied, he pleads for a suspended sentence.
Born in a Spanish enclave in Morocco to a Flemish father and a Moroccan mother, Corentin, who arrived in Belgium at the age of 12 without really mastering French, is caught up in his past. He was involved in a fight that nearly cost the life of a young Brussels (…)

The man suspected of having killed his wife Meryem in a building on Rue de Mérode in Saint-Gilles in 2022 and having disguised her death as a suicide has been released from prison.
Relief for the suspect in a femicide, who has been in pre-trial detention for a year and a half. "We can confirm that the accused is being held in detention under the modality of electronic surveillance by decision of the council chamber of August 9, 2024," the Brussels public prosecutor’s office confirms (…)

A Flemish Catholic school is offering a mandatory Arabic course to its final year students, an unprecedented initiative in Belgium.
The school’s director, Frank Baeyens, defends an ambitious pedagogical approach: "We don’t want to coddle our students, but to intellectually challenge them."
The goal is not to train Arabic speakers, but to open minds to a different language and culture. "We want to show them that a language can be based on a completely different structure," explains the (…)

In Brussels, a new shooting has cost the life of a young Moroccan. A suspect has been arrested and an investigation is underway to solve this crime.
New shooting in Brussels. On Thursday around 10 pm, a shooting that occurred in the bistro Chez Ova, Rue de l’Église Sainte-Anne, very close to the town hall of Koekelberg, resulted in one death, reports Bruzz. Information confirmed by the Bruxelles-Ouest police zone. Residents heard several gunshots and alerted the police. Upon arrival, the (…)

Four Moroccans detained in the Wortel prison, near Antwerp, tried to escape during the night from Monday to Tuesday. Too bad for them, their project did not prosper.
The inmates had meticulously planned their escape. They managed to remove bricks from their cell to make their way to the exit. It was when they tried to climb the one-meter fence of the prison to find themselves outside that the prison alarm went off. It was around three o’clock in the morning. The four detainees were easily (…)

The Federal Judicial Police (FJP) of Antwerp has arrested a new suspect as part of the investigation into the murder of Firdaous, the 11-year-old girl killed by a bullet in January 2023, at the home of her parents in Merksem.
During a new search as part of the investigation into the murder of Firdaous, the Federal Judicial Police (FJP) of Antwerp last Friday arrested Jorn B., a 28-year-old taxi driver from Rumst. He is one of the acquaintances of Daniëlle R. de Putte, the 53-year-old (…)

Yahya D., 28, was arrested last Thursday as the alleged perpetrator of the two shots fired at drug dealer Ali T., alias ’Ali Rus’, on Gevaertlaan in the Boom region. The accused denies the facts.
Yahya D. was arrested in Wilrijk by the Antwerp police, while he was driving a van that was identified by witnesses during the shooting on Gevaertlaan. The defendant was presented to the investigating judge on Friday, then placed in detention for attempted murder. He will appear this Wednesday (…)

Blocked in Morocco since October 2021 due to the withdrawal of his residence permit, the controversial imam Mohamed Toujgani could return to Belgium by the end of the year. The Brussels Court of Appeal validated his request for Belgian nationality on Wednesday. However, an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office is not excluded.
Mohamed Toujgani had his Belgian residence permit withdrawn in October 2021 while he was in Morocco. With the decision of the Brussels Court of Appeal, which has (…)

Wanted since the end of June for the murder of Soufiane Benali, Mohamed-Amine Dardour, 25, was arrested on Saturday by the Belgian federal police.
Mohamed-Amine Dardour was arrested on Saturday after a month and a half on the run, the federal police announced on Sunday in a press release. The 25-year-old man is accused, along with two accomplices, of the murder of Soufiane Benali, during a shooting that occurred on the night of July 4 to 5, 2020, on Alfred Orban Street in the city center (…)

A 70-year-old Belgian man lost the "fruit of a lifetime’s work" in a major scam orchestrated by a self-proclaimed heiress of a former king of Morocco. A 40-year-old Parisian man, already convicted of ten months in prison in France for a fraud case, was arrested and then detained.
It all started with an email that a woman, presenting herself as the heiress of a former king of Morocco, sent to a 71-year-old man from Namur in 2021. In this message, "she requests his financial support to help (…)