While he has joined the training camp of the Moroccan under-20 national team, Ismaïl Baouf, an 18-year-old talent playing at Anderlecht, is under pressure from the Belgian Football Union, which wants him to reconsider his decision. His father assures that he is not ready to change his sports nationality.
Mohamed J., arrested in Morocco in 2009 and sentenced to ten years in prison after his escape from Bruges prison aboard a helicopter with Ashraf Sekkaki alias "The King of Escape", was sentenced on Friday by the Antwerp Correctional Court to forty months in prison for cocaine trafficking and one year in prison for illegal possession of weapons.
The trial for the murder of Soufiane Benali, a 23-year-old man nicknamed "Nana" who was killed in July 2020 in Forest, Belgium, continues before the Brussels Assize Court. Other hearings will take place this Monday, October 14.
After managing to obtain three elected representatives in the parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region (Dutch-speaking wing) following the legislative elections of June 9, could the Fouad Ahidar Team repeat the feat in the municipal elections on October 13?
Faced with soaring energy prices and political uncertainties, the Belgian tomato producer Den Berk Délice is taking the lead by setting up in Morocco.
Under a European arrest warrant issued by the Dutch authorities since August 2024, a member of the Mocro Maffia, the Moroccan mafia specialized in drug trafficking and organized crime in the Netherlands and Belgium, was arrested on Tuesday in Paris for his involvement in an international drug trafficking operation.
In Belgium, radical behaviors of students related to religious facts worry teachers, writers, academics and researchers.
The strike notice from the security, cleaning and hotel sectors in Belgium has forced the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) to cancel its flights to and from Brussels.
Many flights between Morocco and Belgium could be canceled due to a nationwide strike at Belgian airports.
While Jane Benzaquen, the 72-year-old Belgian-Moroccan born in Casablanca, who claims to be the "hidden daughter" of Hassan II and therefore the half-sister of King Mohammed VI, continues her fight for paternity recognition, the royal family "considers itself the victim of an attempted extortion of funds" and files a complaint for fraud.
Escaped from the Bruges prison in 2009 with the famous Malinois criminal of Moroccan origin Ashraf Sekkaki on board a helicopter, Mohammed J. appeared last Thursday before the Antwerp court for cocaine trafficking and possession of weapons. The prosecution requested a four-year prison sentence against him.
Mustapha, his wife and their three children aged 16, 13 and 1.5 years old live cramped in an unsanitary studio full of mold in Ganshoren in the Brussels region. The Moroccan family is vainly trying to find a larger and more decent housing.