Koen Geens, Belgian Minister of Justice, faced the deputies on Thursday, October 17. He made it clear to them that it is impossible for the Government to separate the children of jihadists from their mothers, during their repatriation.
Of Moroccan origin, Rachid Bouazza, known in the drug trafficking trade, is listed by the Belgian authorities as the country’s most wanted fugitive. Already sentenced to 20 years in prison, he has not given any sign of life for several months. Despite the many efforts made to capture him, he remains untraceable.
We know a little more about the identity of these two jihadists : Yassine Cheikhi and Mohamed Botachbaqut. Imprisoned in northeastern Syria, they were able to escape, as confirmed by Paul Van Tigchelt, Director of the Coordination and Analysis Body for the Threat (OCAM), before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber.
On the night of October 15 to 16, a racist incident pitted a police officer and Joshua, a black Belgian passenger, on a train from Brussels to Liège. In the video of the altercation posted on Twitter, the police officer repeatedly told the young man of Congolese origin to "go back to Kinshasa" if he did not like the way the Belgian system works.
Rachid Bouazza, a Moroccan Resident Abroad (MRE), is an Antwerp drug baron. He is now on the list of the most wanted criminals in Belgium.
More than 3,000 people are on the Belgian police’s blacklist for their links to far-right factions, considered "small groups or phenomena to be monitored," according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, Pieter De Crem.
The trial of European jihadist nationals in Iraq is the subject of discussions between a small group of European countries and the Iraqi authorities. Iraq would have demanded an astronomical sum to carry out the work.
Morocco continues to attract the interest of foreign countries. After Portugal, it is the turn of a multi-sectoral Belgian economic mission that plans to visit the Kingdom from October 14 to 18.
Religious communities, including mosques, wishing to be recognized and receive public funding in Flanders are now required to undergo a four-year examination period.
The Collective against Islamophobia in Belgium (CCIB) has highlighted the increase in Islamophobic attacks noted in 2018. In total, 80 cases of Islamophobia were opened, which represents a 10% increase compared to 2017.
The lifeless body of a 44-year-old Moroccan woman was found last Tuesday in the bathtub of her home located in Kapelle-op-den-Bos, in the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. Her partner was arrested for homicide.
The trial of a Moroccan man and his wife, prosecuted for mistreating their daughter, opened in a Belgian court in the Saint-Nicolas region.