Brussels-based Sami Chouchi stepped into the arena where he faced Russian Abas Azizov in a judo match on Saturday in Uzbekistan, at the Judo Grand Prix in Tashkent. In the end, the world’s 18th-ranked judoka in his category won the bronze medal in the -81 kg category.
Belgian Akim Saouti and Frenchman Salah Ghemit were both sentenced to 10 years in prison for weapons possession, participation in the activities of a terrorist group and for planning an attack. This is the sentence handed down by Prosecutor Fabienne Laduron before the Brussels Correctional Court on Thursday, September 19.
A senior official at the Moroccan Embassy in Belgium and Coordinator of the MRE Children’s Learning Program in Brussels pursued his former collaborator, whom he had been harassing from Belgium, all the way to Morocco in a motorhome for 29 hours of driving. She, having been sent back to the country, filed a complaint after an initial one filed in the Belgian capital.
The last surviving assailant of the November 13, 2015 attacks at the Stade de France, Salah Abdeslam is an atypical inmate, a provocateur...
Four Moroccans affiliated with the terrorist organization, Daesh, are now on the global terrorist blacklist. During the investigations into the Paris (2015) and Brussels airport (2016) attacks, three names from the group were often mentioned.
A French specialist in customer relations present in five African countries, Webhelp is now under the control of the Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. Bought for 800 million euros by the investment fund GBL, the latter is determined to make it the leading pan-African player in customer relations by 2025.
At the request of the Brussels investigating judge, the police launched an appeal for witnesses on Monday, July 30, 2019, as part of the continuation of the investigation into the kidnapping and murder of Mohamed Harrouchy.
Disappeared in December 2018, Mohamed Harrouchy was found on June 9 in Haren, in the Brussels region. His body was buried in an industrial park, according to the spokesman for the Brussels Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The headquarters of the Moroccan Consulate in Brussels served as the setting last Sunday for the Hassan II Foundation, which proceeded to honor the best Moroccan students in the learning of the Arabic language for the past school year.
The conclusions of a recent report by the World Health Organization show that migrants arriving in Europe do not bring diseases. On the contrary, the WHO states that they often contract them on the spot in Europe, due to the unsanitary conditions in which they are forced to live. This supports the professionals on the ground, who say there is no cause for concern at the Gare du Nord in Brussels where the presence of migrants is feared to cause epidemics.
Ahmed Isnasni and his wife Habiba El-Hajji were killed in 2002 by their far-right neighbor, a criminal and racist act that shook, among others, the entire community of Schaerbeek. A street will bear their names if the procedure in this direction bears fruit. Or rather their first names.
The Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels will host an Iftar and a cultural evening. On the museum’s Facebook page, the organizers explained that it is "to promote intercultural exchanges".