In Belgium, around fifty fighters who went to Syria or Afghanistan and were also convicted of terrorism - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - have, to date, been deprived of their Belgian nationality.
Three individuals, including a Moroccan, are being prosecuted before the Liège Correctional Court as alleged members of an international SMS fraud or "SMS fishing" network that is said to have stolen more than two million euros from more than 160 victims in the Liège region. The public prosecutor’s office has requested prison sentences of 18 to 56 years against them.
Vincent Van Quickenborne, Belgian Minister of Justice, also in charge of the management of Cults, believes that the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB), the main representative body of this cult, is too permeable to the influences of Morocco and Turkey. He intends to withdraw the EMB’s status as the official interlocutor of the State.
Netflix has unveiled the new official trailer for the Belgian series Soil, directed by Belgian-Moroccans Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. A series that talks about a dilemma facing the Moroccan community in Belgium.
Long criticized by the government, the Executive of Muslims of Belgium could be dissolved in a few days. The Minister of Justice accuses it of not being representative of all Muslims in the country.
Starting this Friday, Moroccan and other travelers arriving on Belgian territory must present a Digital Covid Certificate. This is the decision taken by the Interministerial Health Conference (CIM), which brings together the various Ministers of Health of the country.
Due to the improvement in the epidemiological situation, with the shift from red to orange code, Belgium has decided to ease measures in places of worship.
Convicted by default in Belgium for terrorism, thirteen fighters - mostly Belgian-Moroccans - who went to Syria or Afghanistan, have been stripped of their Belgian nationality by the Brussels Court of Appeal.
The fourth trial of Mounir Kiouh, a Moroccan residing abroad (MRE) accused of killing a 2-year-old baby in an apartment in Namur in 2005, will open on Thursday, February 17 before the Court of Appeal of Tetouan. He had been sentenced in the first instance to 20 years in prison.
After his performances at the CAN, Moroccan international Selim Amallah intends to show the same determination with Standard de Liège, traveling to Genk this Sunday as part of the 27th matchday of the Belgian championship.
During the debates on a text from the Mouvement réformateur (MR) aimed at maintaining an intergenerational aid/platform in the Brussels Parliament on Friday, the Brussels deputy Ahmed Mouhssin (Ecolo) attacked the president of the MR, Georges-Louis Bouchez, accusing him of "questioning Islamophobia", "supporting (Eric) Zemmour", and "standing in solidarity with a racist and an anti-Semite."
For having been turned away from the Drug Opéra, a restaurant in Brussels, Haron Zaanan , a Belgian model and influencer of Moroccan origin, has just filed a complaint for discrimination and transphobia, according to a spokesperson for the Brussels-Ixelles police.