After the very first extradition of a drug lord from the United Arab Emirates to Belgium, the noose is tightening around the Belgian-Moroccan drug traffickers living in Dubai.
Mourad Maimouni, an independent municipal councilor, suggested during a Brussels municipal council session to rename streets in tribute to Moroccan and Turkish immigrant workers, marking the 60th anniversary of the migration agreements between Belgium and these two countries.
In Belgium, the verdict of the Tongres Assize Court has been handed down: the main defendant in the torture murder of Hilal Makhtout in March 2019 in Forzée has been given a heavy prison sentence.
Moroccans once again top the list of foreigners who have obtained Belgian nationality.
The mega-trial for international cocaine and cannabis trafficking scheduled for early November finally opened in Brussels on Monday before the correctional court relocated to the Justitia, the former NATO headquarters converted into a highly secure judicial arena. Among the more than 120 defendants are Maghrebians who imported drugs from countries including Morocco to Belgium.
In the night from Friday to Saturday in Hoboken, in the Antwerp region, an explosion targeted a house on De Hertstraat, damaging the front door of a house belonging to Moroccans but without causing any injuries.
The trial of the 13 individuals charged with criminal conspiracy and torture resulting in the death without intent of Hilal Makhtout, a young Moroccan from Genk continues before the Tongres Assize Court.
The Moroccan residing in Belgium Mohammed Taoussi, 29, indicted for having starved and killed Wassim, his 3-year-old son, has changed lawyers.
A father and his son were hit on Wednesday morning in Diegem, Belgium, by a car while they were on the sidewalk. Mohamed died on the spot while the son is in critical condition at the hospital.
A Moroccan child died last Saturday in Habay-la-Vieille, a small town in Belgium, despite the intervention of emergency services called by his father. Wassim was only three years old.
On the list of the most wanted drug traffickers are several Belgo-Moroccans. They now live in Morocco, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, thus escaping Belgian and French justice.
After a 12-year prison sentence for his escape from Beauvais and 13 years of detention in Bordeaux for drug trafficking, the Franco-Moroccan Mohammed Benabdelhak, alias "the Bumpy One", sees his criminal record further aggravated by a new conviction.