Belgian Interior Minister Pieter De Crem is concerned about a "significant increase in individuals and small cells of the far-right movement who legitimize the use of violence." These extremists would even be ready to take more violent actions.
Fouad Dian, 33, detained since 2015 in Belgium and Haudainville, was finally arrested in May in the Bordeaux region. At the Verdun court, the judge decided to keep him in prison until April 2024.
A migrant was violently hit by a vehicle that fled the scene. This happened during the night from Friday to Saturday on the highway at the Bourgambray rest area in Belgium.
Oualid Sekkaki and Abderrahim Baghat, who planned the escape plan from Turnhout prison in Belgium, are still at large. The three other prisoners who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity have been returned to prison.
Three widows of Islamic State (IS) fighters have been sentenced to five years in prison and stripped of their Belgian nationality.
Oualid, 26, brother of Ashraf Sekkaki, a notorious criminal known by the nickname "king of escape", is one of the two escapees from the Turnhout prison, still on the run. Three of the five escapees were arrested.
On Wednesday, Morocco offered an artisanal fountain to the Brussels municipality of Jette. This effort by the kingdom is part of strengthening the ties of friendship and cultural cooperation between Morocco and Belgium.
The Antwerp Criminal Court will look into the case of the two sisters repatriated from Turkey to Belgium at the end of November. Their lawyer announced it on Tuesday.
In Belgium, the Office of Foreigners recorded for the year 2018 nearly 13,000 administrative arrests of transit migrants. A record figure that far exceeds that of 2017.
Morocco’s determination to effectively combat terrorism is recognized and appreciated by the Chief Prosecutor of the National Court of Spain. He made this known during the Meeting of Prosecutors Members of the Quadripartite Anti-Terrorism Group held in Marrakech.
The lawyer of the heirs of AB InBev was sentenced to 2 years in prison, including 15 months suspended, for money laundering and breach of trust. Farida Chorfi is accused of fraudulently taking 66 million euros from this family.
Belgian politicians are divided on the issue of repatriating or not the jihadists imprisoned in the camps in Iraq and Syria. Many think that their return to their homeland would allow them to reconnect with their terrorist activities.