The 38-year-old drug baron Othman El Ballouti, who made his fortune in Dubai where he was arrested at the end of 2024, was handed over to the Belgian authorities this Sunday, along with two other traffickers: Giorgi Faes and Mathias Akyazili.
The United Arab Emirates has handed over to Belgium the Antwerp drug trafficker Mohamed A. A., the former brother-in-law and right-hand man of drug baron Youssef Ben Azza, alias "Monte Christo", who is on the run in Morocco.
Death threats have been addressed to the worshippers of the Al Kafaalah mosque, located in Antwerp (Belgium).
The house of a Moroccan drug trafficker, located on the Frans Nagelsplein in Wilrijk, was the target of an explosion in the early morning of this Monday. The Antwerp police have opened an investigation.
Terki Nacer Eddine, 63, has been hailed and celebrated by the residents of Antwerp for having saved several people during a deadly assault on a bus.
Ilyes Zairi, 32, a young man from Antwerp, was stabbed to death on Sunday in a square in Seefhoek, while coming to the aid of a young woman who was being harassed.
After months of postponements, the trial of Dikke Nordin El Hajjioui in the "Bombs and Grenades" case was supposed to be held this Wednesday. But the Moroccan-born defendant did not appear in court. The prosecution requested a sentence of twelve years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros against him.
While they thought he had fled to Morocco, Belgian investigators finally arrested Ali O., convicted in two separate trials for drug trafficking and membership in a criminal organization in the Antwerp region. He is currently incarcerated in Antwerp prison, Belgium.
The investigation into two separate explosive attacks, carried out on July 31 and August 1, 2024 in the Antwerp region, has recently progressed with the arrest of three suspects in the Netherlands. The first attack had targeted a residence in Hove linked to the Moroccan drug milieu, while the second had damaged a gym in Mortsel.
The Antwerp court has sentenced in absentia Omar Govers alias "Patje Haemers", one of the city’s most notorious drug-related criminals, whose accomplices are Belgian-Moroccans Othman El Ballouti or Nordin El Hajjioui, to a heavy prison sentence for importing more than 26 tons of cocaine.
FIFA has just validated the new sports nationality of the young Belgian of Moroccan origin Youssef Hamdaoui . This is at least what can be read on the website of the international football body.
Arrived in Belgium where he hoped to change his life, a Moroccan with a disability faces a harsh reality.