The date of Eid al-Fitr is known in Belgium. This is what the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) has just indicated after a meeting this Friday, May 22 in Brussels.
Not all Belgians stranded in Morocco and other countries will be able to be repatriated home. This is at least what Philippe Goffin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, affirmed on Tuesday to the Chamber committee.
Belgium is slowly returning to normal life, after more than two months of lockdown. Even though the Belgian embassy in Morocco has announced that it has been able to repatriate 2,000 Belgians, this is not the case for Naziha and her husband Fouad, who have been stuck in Tangier since March 10. The couple is worried about their business left in the country, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Philippe Goffin, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, will exchange on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, with representatives of the platforms of Belgo-Moroccans stranded in Morocco and Belgians stranded in Morocco and their lawyers. On the agenda of the exchanges, the repatriation of people who remained stranded in Morocco .
European Commissioner Didier Reynders has stated that it will not be possible for Belgians to spend the summer holidays in Morocco or other countries. He fears that tourists will relive the repatriation sequence.
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.
Leaving for Morocco in their new motorhome on March 6, Michel Van den Bossche and Noëlle Godan have been confined in the kingdom for more than a month and a half. They hope to board one of the boats that transport motorhome owners between Morocco and Europe to then return to Belgium.
A fight between two Tunisian drug traffickers and two young Moroccans escalated on Sunday evening in Ghent, Belgium.
The Dutch travel agency Corendon, operating in Belgium, is working to develop a plan to test tourists before they leave for vacation. Hundreds of thousands of tests would be needed, said Steven van der Heijden, the director, on Sunday.
The Muslims of Arlon will have, in the very near future, a new place of worship worthy of the name.
With his gang, Nassim, 27, is involved in an impressive number of burglaries that occurred in Belgium during funerals. What about the modus operandi of this gang of burglars?
While he had left Morocco to go to Sedan, his hometown, Denis Ray, 70, the husband of Zhor, a Moroccan, finds himself stranded in the parking lot of the Leclerc shopping center in Sedan, near Bouillon, since March 16, the eve of the lockdown. And for good reason, his converted truck has broken down.