On the initiative of the non-profit organization Museum and Documentation Center of Moroccan Immigration in Belgium (ASBL Mémorial), a memorial museum of Moroccan immigration will be inaugurated in Brussels, early 2021.
An Islamic State fighter, originally from Borgerhout, Saïda El Mimouni, was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison.
Between the repatriation of the children of jihadists stranded in Syria, and the payment of a penalty of 50,000 euros by Belgium, Abderrahim Lahlali and Mohamed Ozdemir, both lawyers for the families concerned, choose the first option.
The Molenbeek alderman, Abdellah Achaoui, who is also president of the ASBL Ecole des jeunes de l’Union Saint-Gilloise, made numerous cash withdrawals, without any justification, using the school’s bank card. This is, at least, what the magazine Medor has claimed.
Rachida, a Moroccan expatriate (MRE), says she was a victim of racism from a nurse who made her undergo an examination at the radiology department of the Sint-Franciscus hospital in Heusden-Zolder, Limburg, Belgium, on Friday, January 24. She had a sprained big toe.
Fatima Ezzarhouni, 48, and Sophie Pirson, 61, respectively the mother of a radicalized person and the mother of a victim of the double attack carried out on March 22, 2016, have been looking in the same direction, with the same acuity, since their meeting in 2018. They are looking for a publisher for a book they are preparing in order to bring about qualitative change in society.
One week. This is the number of days left in the deadline set by the court for the State to provide consular assistance to ten children of Belgians who went to fight in Syria. If it does not comply, it will have to pay 50,000 euros per day and per child.
After his spectacular escape from the Turnhout prison, Oualid Sekkaki mocks the prison administration by sending a postcard from Thailand. On December 19, it was in the company of four other inmates that Oualid Sekkaki escaped by climbing a six-meter-high wall during the evening walk.
At the request of the Belgian federal police services, Interpol has just issued an arrest warrant against a Belgian-Moroccan, the mastermind of an international car trafficking network in Europe. The modus operandi of this cross-border criminal network consists of stealing cars in several European countries to resell them in North Africa and Eastern Europe.
The far-right party, Vlaams Belang, has just filed a complaint against the municipality of Ghent regarding posters that would not respect the linguistic legislation in force. The posters in question inform the Turkish and Arabic-speaking communities about the low emission zone.
A site located opposite the Laeken castle was combed through by investigators on the trail of the terrorists’ weapons, perpetrators of the March 22, 2016 attacks. This search proved fruitless.
The "inhumane conditions" of Abdelqader Belliraj, a Belgian-Moroccan sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 and "apparently held in abusive isolation" for more than three years" in a prison in Morocco worries Human Rights Watch.