There are new developments in the case of the death of Adil, a 19-year-old, who died in a police chase in Anderlecht. His family wants to request additional investigative duties after the dismissal handed down on November 26 by the Brussels public prosecutor’s office for lack of sufficient charges "against the protagonists of the case and in particular the driver of the police vehicle".
Aged 45, Yassine B., found guilty in June last year and sentenced to 12 years in prison for four rapes, four indecent assaults, with the aggravating circumstance of sequestration, and for threats with a knife, committed between July 2016 and November 2019, must again answer to similar acts committed in September 2017, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office said this week. He is due to appear in court on April 15.
Muslims in Belgium will be informed on Sunday about the start date of the month of Ramadan. The Council of Theologians, attached to the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) will make the announcement via videoconference at 5:30 p.m. (local time).
The federal prosecutor’s office is moving towards sending eight indictees to the assizes and two others to the correctional court in the Brussels attacks case. This is at least what its spokesperson, Eric Van der Sypt, has stated.
The African Union and the Belgian pharmaceutical manufacturer Janssen Pharmaceutica have concluded a vaccine acquisition agreement against Covid-19. The manufacturer will deliver 400 million doses of vaccine to the member countries of the Union.
With the switch to daylight saving time on Sunday, March 28, 2021, the arrival of the month of Ramadan, and the curfew in force in the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon and Flemish Regions extended until April 25, 2021, the Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB), through a press release, urges all mosque leaders and Muslim citizens to take the following measures from this Sunday.
After twelve years spent in prison in Morocco, Ali Aarrass, a 59-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, now free to move around, talks about this difficult period of his life. He mentions episodes of torture in Moroccan prisons.
Belgium has decided to organize the repatriation of the children of jihadists - the majority of them are children of Belgian-Moroccans - present in the detention camps in northeastern Syria. Prime Minister Alexander De Croo had made this announcement before Parliament.
In total, 25 families, including Moroccans, will be evicted from their social housing in Lierre in September for violating the law on rental. They own real estate (land, apartments or houses) abroad.
Belgium has indeed extended the ban on non-essential travel abroad and to the country until April 18. Meeting in the Consultation Committee, the Federal and federated entities confirmed this.
The French Colis Privé, a private parcel delivery provider specializing in the last mile, has decided to set up in several countries including Morocco .
Since 2019, Naïma Jillal, the drug trafficker nicknamed "Aunt" has been untraceable. The latest elements of the investigation conducted by the Dutch authorities led the police to Belgium, in a warehouse where the baroness’ personal belongings were found, but no trace of her.