Accused of having killed Denis Debouverie, a 74-year-old man, nicknamed the "king of the Îlot Sacré" - the historic district of Brussels -, Tarek Ladhari who was one of the victim’s tenants to whom he owed a lot of money, was finally acquitted by the jury. The latter noted analyses that were not carried out by the investigators which would have been decisive in the search for the truth.
In total, 13 social tenants, including one who owns houses in Morocco, will be evicted from their housing in Antwerp and prosecuted. They have violated the law regarding the rental of social housing.
Study grants in Belgium have been awarded to Moroccan students for the 2020-2021 academic year by the Academy of Research and Higher Education (ARES).
Between 200 and 250 people marched on Monday, October 21, on the Albertine Square in the Belgian capital, Brussels, to protest against police abuses and call for the protection of migrants and refugees.
A couple was sentenced on October 22 to two years in prison, half of which was suspended, and must pay a fine of 2,000 euros for having assaulted and forced their 18-year-old daughter to marry. This is the verdict of the Termonde Correctional Court in Belgium.
Mehdi’s family is organizing a peaceful white march in Brussels on Sunday, October 27 to pay tribute to him. He died suddenly after being hit by a police car from the Brussels-Ixelles police zone on August 20.
With the help of their lawyers, Abderrahim Lahlali and Mohamed Ozdemir, a wounded terrorist, three widows of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) and their ten children are suing the Belgian state. They only ask to be repatriated to Belgium.
If the bill proposed by Theo Francken, former Secretary of State for Asylum, and his N-VA colleagues were to be adopted, family reunification would be much more difficult in Belgium.
Koen Geens, Belgian Minister of Justice, faced the deputies on Thursday, October 17. He made it clear to them that it is impossible for the Government to separate the children of jihadists from their mothers, during their repatriation.
Of Moroccan origin, Rachid Bouazza, known in the drug trafficking trade, is listed by the Belgian authorities as the country’s most wanted fugitive. Already sentenced to 20 years in prison, he has not given any sign of life for several months. Despite the many efforts made to capture him, he remains untraceable.
We know a little more about the identity of these two jihadists : Yassine Cheikhi and Mohamed Botachbaqut. Imprisoned in northeastern Syria, they were able to escape, as confirmed by Paul Van Tigchelt, Director of the Coordination and Analysis Body for the Threat (OCAM), before the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber.
On the night of October 15 to 16, a racist incident pitted a police officer and Joshua, a black Belgian passenger, on a train from Brussels to Liège. In the video of the altercation posted on Twitter, the police officer repeatedly told the young man of Congolese origin to "go back to Kinshasa" if he did not like the way the Belgian system works.