Shopkeepers on Brabant Street in Schaerbeek can no longer tolerate the shootings related to settling scores between rival gangs. They are calling on city and regional authorities to put an end to drug trafficking in the neighborhood.
Belgian justice has ruled on the kidnapping and attempted murder cases perpetrated in 2018, involving the "king of prison breaks" Nordin Benallal, a repeat offender, and his accomplice Raoul P., a former paracommando.
The trial of a Belgian-Moroccan, considered the main perpetrator of the kidnapping and detention of a 13-year-old boy for 42 days in 2020 during the first Covid lockdown, and seven other individuals, opened Tuesday before the Limburg Court of Assizes.
Nora, a 30-year-old Brussels woman, recounts having endured sexual and psychological violence for five years in an arranged marriage with her distant cousin.
On Saturday, April 19, in the morning, hundreds of small-format copies of the Quran translated into French were discovered in several neighborhoods of Liège. These books were placed on car windshields and in mailboxes. Following reports from citizens, the Liège police opened an investigation and the State Security was contacted.
Georges-Louis Bouchez, president of the Reformist Movement (MR), made comments deemed racist about "unemployed homeowners" in Morocco.
The investigation into two separate explosive attacks, carried out on July 31 and August 1, 2024 in the Antwerp region, has recently progressed with the arrest of three suspects in the Netherlands. The first attack had targeted a residence in Hove linked to the Moroccan drug milieu, while the second had damaged a gym in Mortsel.
The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans Othman El Ballouti or Nordin El Hajjioui, to a heavy prison sentence for importing more than 26 tons of cocaine.
While he is due to appear before the Tongeren Assize Court on April 22, a 32-year-old Belgian-Moroccan has disappeared from the radar. This man accused of kidnapping a child is untraceable in Tongeren.
Since 2019, a 73-year-old Belgian-Moroccan woman has been going through an administrative hell to have her family name corrected.
Flanders (Belgium) has seen a worrying increase in measles cases among children in recent months. A health specialist urges vaccination before any travel to Morocco where the disease is rampant.
Newly married, Sammy Mahdi, 36, president of the CD&V, and his partner and party colleague Nawal Farih, 36, federal MP and group leader in the Chamber in Belgium for the same party, continue to live at different addresses.