A violent explosion shook Antwerp on the night of Saturday to Sunday, causing considerable material damage and leaving one person slightly injured. The local police quickly communicated on the events and the suspicions are directed towards the mocro mafia .
A 40-year-old cyclist fell into the Senne on Tuesday, two months after the case of Imane Khraiss , 25, who drowned in this river. The family of the latter, shocked by this new accident, is alerting the authorities to the increase in accident cases.
The football player Sofian Kiyine , who hit a roundabout before flying several meters and landing in a sports hall in Flémalle (province of Liège), has not yet been able to be heard by the investigators, the Liège prosecutor’s office announced on Friday afternoon. Although injured, his life is not in danger.
On March 23, Muslims in Belgium began the month of Ramadan. However, an alarming practice is worrying school authorities and health professionals: students as young as 9 years old are observing the fast, an obligation that should only be observed from puberty.
Kidnapped on February 22 at a service station along the E19 motorway towards Antwerp, then held hostage, Mohamed Azzaoui , 49 years old and originally from Wilrijk, was released by his kidnappers last weekend. He was mistaken for a drug trafficker.
After detecting 6,061 offenses in 2022 as part of investigations into the residential fraud of some job seekers, Belgium has decided to toughen its fight against this type of fraud, as well as fraud concerning unemployed people.
Divisional Commissioner François Farcy, Director of the Federal Judicial Police of Liège, states that the Albanian mafia "is on a par in Belgium" with the Moroccan mafia.
Abdel Fattouche, a Molenbeek family man, is under threat of eviction from the apartment he rents for 600 euros, at the end of his notice period on March 31. The Molenbeek resident is urgently looking for affordable housing before this deadline, while he has been waiting for social housing for 13 years.
Moroccans residing in Belgium could soon have difficulty obtaining social housing if the call by the Mouvement Réformateur (MR) to tighten the access conditions is heard.
Imed’s sister-in-law, a 42-year-old family man, shot by police after a car chase on Thursday late morning in Seneffe, witnessed the murder and gives her testimony.
In Belgium, where Ramadan began on Thursday, an organization had initially planned to organize an iftar for LGBTQ+ Muslims in Antwerp, before deciding to cancel it for security reasons.
Ramadan will begin on Thursday, March 23, 2023, the Executive of Muslims of Belgium has just announced, following the meeting of the Council of Theologians. Here is the full text of the body: