Nour (for girls) and Adam (for boys) are the most popular names given to newborns in the Brussels region in 2022, dethroning Lina and Mohamed who were the most popular in 2021.
More than two million passengers were welcomed in May at Brussels Airport , a figure up 22% compared to the same period last year, thanks in particular to travelers to Morocco.
While they were carrying out a kayak descent on the Lesse at the beginning of June, about fifteen agents from the Brussels-West police zone (Molenbeek-Berchem-Ganshoren-Jette-Koekelberg), apparently in a state of drunkenness, had a clash with a group of young Brussels people of Moroccan origin, aged between 14 and 18 years old. Racist insults would have been uttered.
This summer, passengers on the Casablanca-Brussels route of Royal Air Maroc will discover a change in their flight experience.
The damning testimony of a police inspector in the Adil Charrot case , a 19-year-old man who died in Anderlecht in April 2020 after a police chase, is pushing the Brussels-Midi police zone to embark on a crusade against racism and sexism.
Opened on Monday, the trial of the riots that broke out in the Cureghem district, the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht after the death of Adil , a 19-year-old man in a police chase, continues until this Wednesday.
The Brussels Sentence Enforcement Court granted on Monday to Berzan Kaplan, cousin of Ahmet Kaplan, the main suspect in the death of Moroccan Ziena Kemous, the privilege of an electronic bracelet. His release has provoked the outrage of the victim’s sisters.
Mohamed Ben Brahim, wanted by the Brussels police and prosecutor’s office since Friday, April 21, 2023 for sexual exploitation, kidnapping and rape, was finally arrested on Tuesday, April 25. The fugitive of Moroccan origin was under the supervision of the Brussels Enforcement Court and was considered dangerous.
A young Brussels resident managed to locate his smartphone that was stolen from him in a bar in Brussels in a shop in Morocco. However, it is difficult, if not impossible, for him to recover it.
The tour operator TUI fly has decided to transfer its flights scheduled to depart from Brussels South Charleroi Airport (BSCA) to Brussels Airport for the 2023-2024 winter season, thus confirming information published on the L-Post website. This departure change will initially concern Oujda and Nador.
About 500 applicants for social housing have been removed from the waiting list in Brussels at the time of the renewal of the files. The reason? They were property owners, announced on Friday the Brussels Secretary of State for Housing, Nawal Ben Hamou (PS), during a session at the Brussels Parliament.
While Wallonia plans to follow in the footsteps of Flanders by organizing the hunt for social housing tenants - including MREs - who own property abroad, Brussels is ruling out this option. The latter considers that "it would be socially penalizing."