A young Brussels resident managed to locate his smartphone that was stolen from him in a bar in Brussels in a shop in Morocco. However, it is difficult, if not impossible, for him to recover it.
At the request of the President of the Chamber, Eliane Tillieux (PS), the intelligence services control committee, the Comité R, conducted investigations into the revelations regarding the expulsion of the Moroccan preacher Mohamed Toujgani on the grounds of his "danger to national security" and produced its investigation report. It highlights "major dysfunctions" in the management of the case by the civilian intelligence service. Without failing to make recommendations to avoid such flaws in the future.
About 500 applicants for social housing have been removed from the waiting list in Brussels at the time of the renewal of the files. The reason? They were property owners, announced on Friday the Brussels Secretary of State for Housing, Nawal Ben Hamou (PS), during a session at the Brussels Parliament.
Eid al-Fitr will be celebrated this Friday, April 21, 2023 in Belgium, the Executive of Muslims of Belgium has just announced. Here is the full press release:
Several Flemish celebrities will be in the Sahara desert in Morocco from Monday, May 1st to experience one of the toughest trainings in the world.
In Belgium, it is the council of theologians attached to the Executive of Muslims of Belgium that defines the official date of the end of Ramadan. The body will meet this Thursday afternoon to officially announce this date.
Thanks to a particularly aggressive policy, the Flemish government has succeeded in exposing several cases of social housing fraud. Out of the 724 tenants targeted by an investigation, 339 owned one or more properties abroad, particularly in Morocco.
While Wallonia plans to follow in the footsteps of Flanders by organizing the hunt for social housing tenants - including MREs - who own property abroad, Brussels is ruling out this option. The latter considers that "it would be socially penalizing."
The federal judicial police of Leuven, in coordination with the Dutch regional police forces of Zeeland-West Brabant and Rotterdam, as well as the Spanish Guardia Civil, have succeeded in dismantling a criminal organization composed of Moroccan, Spanish and Belgian nationals. In total, 180 million euros from cocaine trafficking were laundered by this network.
The Collective for Inclusion and against Islamophobia in Belgium (CIIB) was the target of a burglary on Wednesday morning, between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. The premises, located on Boulevard du Neuvième de Ligne in Brussels, were vandalized and computers, video production equipment and archives were stolen. According to Mustapha Chairi, co-founder and executive director of the CIIB, the damage amounts to around 7,000 euros.
The "Ramadan-friendly" stickers placed in about twenty cultural centers in Brussels during this Ramadan fasting period are poorly perceived by the city’s Muslim community.
People from different religious communities in Borgerhout (Antwerp) shared an Iftar (meal to break the Ramadan fast) around a one-kilometer long table on Sunday, at a time when Ramadan, Easter and Passover coincide.