Oualid Sekkaki and Abderrahim Baghat, who planned the escape plan from Turnhout prison in Belgium, are still at large. The three other prisoners who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity have been returned to prison.
Three widows of Islamic State (IS) fighters have been sentenced to five years in prison and stripped of their Belgian nationality.
Oualid, 26, brother of Ashraf Sekkaki, a notorious criminal known by the nickname "king of escape", is one of the two escapees from the Turnhout prison, still on the run. Three of the five escapees were arrested.
On Wednesday, Morocco offered an artisanal fountain to the Brussels municipality of Jette. This effort by the kingdom is part of strengthening the ties of friendship and cultural cooperation between Morocco and Belgium.
The Antwerp Criminal Court will look into the case of the two sisters repatriated from Turkey to Belgium at the end of November. Their lawyer announced it on Tuesday.
In Belgium, the Office of Foreigners recorded for the year 2018 nearly 13,000 administrative arrests of transit migrants. A record figure that far exceeds that of 2017.
The lawyer of the heirs of AB InBev was sentenced to 2 years in prison, including 15 months suspended, for money laundering and breach of trust. Farida Chorfi is accused of fraudulently taking 66 million euros from this family.
Belgian politicians are divided on the issue of repatriating or not the jihadists imprisoned in the camps in Iraq and Syria. Many think that their return to their homeland would allow them to reconnect with their terrorist activities.
The smear campaign organized by the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) against the candidacy of the ecologist deputy Zakia Khattabi to the Constitutional Court annoys the Ecolo party. Its co-president, Rajae Maouane, has asked the N-VA party to withdraw this campaign.
Gad Elmaleh is returning to the stage in 2020. The Moroccan comedian will present his show in which he will talk at length about the accusations of plagiarism.
Abdellah Nouamane wishes to be repatriated from Syria. The jihadist imprisoned in a high-security prison in Hassaké, confided to a VTM team his desire to return to serve his sentence in Belgium.
Skeyes, the autonomous public company in Belgium responsible for air traffic control, has been convicted for refusing to invite candidates over 25 to job interviews. This is the decision of the Brussels Labor Court, which cites age discrimination.