The withdrawal of the residence permit of Mohamed Toujgani , the main imam of the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek, and also of Moroccan origin, would be a signal to Morocco. Belgium had meanwhile denounced Moroccan interference and espionage in the context of the takeover of the Great Mosque of Brussels.
Mohamed Toujgani, the main imam of the Al Khalil mosque in Molenbeek, the largest in Belgium, had his residence permit revoked in October by the State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, Sammy Mahdi.
Two Moroccans illegally residing in Belgium managed to escape from the Arlon prison on New Year’s Eve, while a third, a Libyan, was thwarted in his attempt. They would have benefited from outside help.
The Brussels Business Court dismissed the request of three members of the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) for the appointment of a provisional administrator. However, the judge recognizes the illegal takeover by five other members of the executive.
The Brussels Sentence Enforcement Court has granted full freedom to Hassan Iasir , one of the three men convicted in 2011 of home-jacking with aggravating circumstances of murder of the young policewoman, Kitty Van Nieuwenhuysen.
In Belgium, nearly half of the babies born in 2020 had a mother of foreign origin. This is revealed by the Federal Planning Bureau.
The Belgian-Moroccan director Adil El Arbi and his fiancée Loubna Khalkhali, a journalist at the VRT, got married on Saturday, December 18 at the Hoboken town hall, in the presence of the mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever.
In Belgium, Muslim associations have decided to file an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to challenge the decision of the constitutional court on ritual slaughter.
While he came to eat in a fast food restaurant in Auvelais (Sambreville), a man was denied access, his Covid Safe Ticket, issued in Morocco, not being valid in Belgium.
Mired in a governance crisis for several months, the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) will not receive a subsidy from the Belgian government next year.
The special assize court in Paris did not follow up on the request for release of the Belgo-Moroccan Farid Kharkhach, one of the 20 defendants in the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks. The defendant remains in prison.
Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD), Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs, is pulling out all the stops to curb the rise of the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB).