The father of Ihsane Jarfi, a young Moroccan killed in Liège due to his sexual orientation, is among the Belgians who will receive a title of nobility or an honorary distinction from King Philippe on the occasion of the national holiday.
The border police services arrested, at the Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, a Belgian of Algerian origin, a drug criminal from Antwerp under five international arrest warrants issued by the Belgian authorities.
Author of several hold-ups, Mustapha Riffi alias "Little Mustapha", imprisoned at the age of 12, is now a 42-year-old adult, but is still behind bars, in Marche (Belgium). His confidences are recorded in a book entitled "The Little Mustapha the Robber Kid", written by Mustapha Riffi, with rewriting and questioning by Valerian Dirken, a writer, keen on psychology and a volunteer visitor in prisons.
Eid al-Adha is celebrated in a particular way in Belgium, a country that should have 1.149 million Muslims by 2030 according to the Pew Forum of Religion and Public Life.
New explosions occurred at the home of Belgian-Moroccan kickboxer Jamal Ben Saddik in Antwerp, Belgium. A judicial investigation is underway.
The Brussels-born Moroccan Youness Oualad lost to a Bosnian fighter at the WKF World Cup, the U21 European karate championship.
The Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) announced that Eid al-Adha will take place this year on July 9, recalling the rules in force regarding ritual slaughter in each region.
Injured for several weeks, the former Belgian international of Moroccan origin, Marouane Fellaini, who plays for Shandong Taishan in China, has finally resumed the championship, which started in early June.
The Sahara issue is a concern for MP Hugues Bayet (PS) who, together with his colleague Frédérique Ries (MR), coordinates an apolitical Committee for the autonomy of this region. He calls on Belgium to follow in the footsteps of Spain by supporting the Moroccan autonomy plan. In this sense, he intends to send a correspondence this week to the Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo (Open VLD) and the party presidents.
A Moroccan stabbed his compatriot to death during a dispute in the middle of the street, in the Fragnée neighborhood of Liège. The dispute was over a debt of money.
Nassim and Ayoub, two young men in their twenties, died in a terrible road accident in Boussu. The body of one of them will be repatriated to Morocco on Friday.
Moroccan Rayane Bounida, a young hope of Belgian football, was mistaken for Mateo Messi, the youngest son of Argentine international Lionel Messi, in a video where he was dribbling the ball during a training session. The video, posted on social media, went viral.