The body of Ferdaous, the 11-year-old girl killed on Monday in a shootout between drug dealers in Merksem, Belgium, will be repatriated to Morocco on Friday where she will be buried. On Wednesday, hundreds of people, friends, family members and neighbors attended the prayer organized in her memory at the Great Mosque of Kiel.
Nesrine, 34, mother of little Malak, 13, buried on Tuesday in the multi-denominational cemetery of Evere in Belgium, is angry with the Belgian justice system which did not know how to protect her daughter or take the appropriate measures against her murderer, a repeat offender well known to the judicial services.
A network of fake work contracts, which has benefited several people of Moroccan origin for years, has been dismantled in Bressoux, Belgium. The nine defendants, also of Moroccan origin, were sentenced to prison terms and ordered to pay nearly one million euros in damages.
Abdelamin was scammed by a Brussels company to which he paid a deposit of 2,000 euros in 2020 to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. He intends to do everything possible to recover his money.
The great virality of the videos of riots that occurred in the city center of Brussels following the match of the 2nd day of the World Cup between Belgium and Morocco, which ended in a victory for the Lions of the Atlas (0-2), is largely the work of the Vlaams Belang. The far-right party paid a tidy sum to Facebook.
A 11-year-old girl was killed on Monday in Antwerp in a shooting that targeted her home in Merksem. A member of a Moroccan family involved in drug trafficking, Ferdaous was a collateral victim of a settling of scores between drug traffickers.
An 11-year-old girl whose uncle is said to be a Moroccan drug trafficker was killed on Monday in Merksem (Antwerp) in a shooting. It would be a settling of scores in the drug trade.
Cyclist Remco Evenepoel married last year to Oumaïma "Oumi" Rayane, a Belgian influencer of Moroccan origin who is actually his childhood friend.
The appeal trial of the "crime of the century", the spectacular robbery of a plane carrying diamonds, committed in February 2013 at Brussels-National Airport in Zaventem, by a Moroccan and several other individuals of different nationalities, opened on Monday before the Brussels Court of Appeal.
This weekend, 152 flights (76 round-trip flights), including those serving Morocco, are being canceled at Charleroi-Brussels-South airport, Ryanair’s base and Belgium’s second busiest airport for passenger traffic. The reason is a strike by the low-cost Irish airline’s cabin crew.
For several years, Assem Aldilaimi, entrepreneur and owner of the Baker Market supermarket chain, has been trying unsuccessfully to open a halal butcher shop in Anderlecht. One of his neighbors is opposed to the opening of the business.
Teaching in Arabic in Molenbeek is not to the liking of Vooruit president Conner Rousseau. The latter says he does not feel at home there and also calls for improving conditions in these neighborhoods by investing in language, childcare and education.