Will Brussels follow in the footsteps of Flanders and Wallonia and in turn ban slaughter without stunning? In any case, the Brussels minister for animal welfare, Bernard Clerfayt, is campaigning for this to become a reality.
The pleadings hearing took place last Monday before the Dutch-speaking court of first instance in Brussels. The victims of the March 22, 2016 attacks who have brought ten lawsuits against the Belgian State were represented by their lawyer.
The Belgo-Moroccan Ali Aarrass , detained for 12 years in Morocco for belonging to a terrorist group, filed a request in 2018 with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), in which he believes he did not have the necessary consular assistance throughout this period. The request was rejected.
In Belgium, the Constitutional Court handed down a ruling on Thursday, September 30 that confirms the ban on slaughter without prior stunning. A decision that is not to the liking of the Office of the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) and the Council for the Coordination of Islamic Institutions of Belgium, who are considering an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Stranded in Morocco in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nele De Vos, a karateka from Hoeselt, is facing difficulties in obtaining a refund for her cancelled flights more than a year and a half after returning to Belgium.
The Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB), says it is "dismayed" in the face of accusations of misappropriation targeting it, firmly contesting "all the allegations reported in the press".
Another job offer with a discriminatory character denounced by Patrick Charlier, the director of Unia, the inter-federal center against discrimination. A recruitment notice issued by the Sainte-Geneviève school in Etterbeek (Brussels region), for the position of cleaner and child supervisor. But people wearing the veil are prohibited from applying for these two positions.
The Council of State validated on Friday, September 24, the dissolution of the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) - reconstituted in Belgium under the name of the Collective against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) - and of BarakaCity, enacted by the government in December 2020 after the assassination of Samuel Paty.
The State Security was supposed to submit a note in June last year to say whether the former Belgian government commissioner belonged or not to the Muslim Brotherhood . But it was only a month after the deadline that the report on Ihsane Haouach was published. The note would be a request from the Belgian intelligence services and not from the government.
Mehdi Amri, a young Brussels native of Moroccan origin and a virtuoso of the round ball, has opened a freestyle school in the municipality of Laeken to teach children the Pannahouse "small bridge".
The remains of Youness Bizrane, a Moroccan who disappeared in 2013, were found in a suitcase along the N978 road towards Cerfontaine, Belgium. In 2016, the Turnhout correctional court had convicted an individual for the murder of this MRE without having seen his body.
Riadh Bahri, a Belgian journalist, was the victim of a homophobic attack in early September in Brussels.