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.
The Belgian federal police are searching for Ismaïl Ouchen, a potentially dangerous young man who was recently convicted on several sentences.
Moroccans living abroad (MREs) top the ranking of citizens who have obtained Belgian nationality.
The New Flemish Alliance is campaigning against Moroccans benefiting from social housing in the Flemish region of Belgium and owning real estate in Morocco. These Moroccans living abroad (MREs) are now threatened with expulsion.
Deputy Nahima Lanjri, from the Christen Democratisch en Vlaams (Christian Democrats and Flemish, CD&V) party, wished that Belgium would plead for its citizens, holding dual nationality, to be able to renounce one of them so as not to be bound by obligations in one of the two countries.
The Federal Public Service Finances has suspended a Belgian customs officer, who has been in office for a week, for posting anti-Muslim, homophobic and conspiracy videos on YouTube.
To the Moroccan soldiers who fell with weapons in hand during World War II, Belgium wishes to be grateful. Motonobu Kasajima, general delegate of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation in Morocco , announced this country’s intention to pay tribute to these brave soldiers.