The Brussels State Secretary, Pascal Smet (one.brussels), will conduct an external, independent radiography of the Fire and Emergency Medical Service (Siamu) of the Brussels-Capital Region on the theme of diversity. This initiative stems from racist incidents.
Following the "racist" slip-up of Éric Labourdette, trade union representative of the firefighters, Brussels deputy Hicham Talhi filed a complaint with the SLFP union. A report to Unia as well.
Information from the Brussels Correctional Court indicates the acquittal of the 18-year-old accused of having thrown a paving stone at a police vehicle during the riots in Anderlecht on April 11, and of having violated six times the confinement measures imposed on citizens to curb the spread of covid-19.
Four suspects have been arrested and charged with forgery and use of forgeries, receiving, money laundering and criminal organization as part of an investigation by the federal judicial police. A Brussels investigating judge has placed them under extended detention for a period of one month.
Khalil Zeguendi, a Moroccan from Brussels, is renouncing his Moroccan nationality on the grounds that his sick brother is among the 4,500 Belgo-Moroccans still stranded in Morocco since the suspension of air flights. He accuses the kingdom of not having facilitated their repatriation to date.
After the riots in Anderlecht and the massive arrests, the non-profit organizations "Le foyer des jeunes des Marolles" and "Jeunes ambition Marolles" have, in a letter, requested a meeting with the mayor of Brussels-City, Philippe Close, and the divisional commissioner of the police or the head of the Brussels-Capital/Ixelles police zone. The aim will be for the parties to engage in constructive dialogue in order to ease tensions.
Morocco has lost 97 nationals, victims of the coronavirus, in Belgium, including 75 in Brussels, 15 in Liège and 07 in Antwerp. This was specified on Saturday, April 18, 2020, by the Moroccan ambassador Mohamed Ameur.
Members of the Futsal Espoirs Molenbeek association, in collaboration with the young people of the neighborhood, are helping people in need during this confinement period.
The police car that had hit Mehdi Bouda, a 17-year-old boy, on Ravenstein Street in Brussels, near the central station, on August 20, 2019 was driving at high speed and without the siren activated.
Sven Mary, the lawyer for the police officers involved in the death of Adil in a chase in Anderlecht, gives his version of the facts and denounces, at the same time, the Brussels Secretary of State, Pascal Smet, who would be making "political exploitation".
Alexis Deswaef, the lawyer for the family of Adil, a 19-year-old man who died on Friday in Anderlecht in a police chase, has asked the Brussels public prosecutor’s office to appoint an investigating judge. His mission will be to investigate the actual circumstances of the accident.
The Brussels civil court dismissed the mother of Ismaïl, who had filed a liability action against the Belgian state. The 16-year-old teenager had taken a plane to Istanbul on April 4, 2013, before joining Syria.