Amin El Boujdaini, a Belgian-Moroccan, municipal councilor in Anderlecht, is the biggest asset of the Mouvement réformateur (MR) to seduce the Moroccan community in Belgium and especially in Brussels.
Mohamed, a 26-year-old Moroccan homeless man, sees his life turned upside down overnight due to a terrible accident. While fleeing a police check, he lost his legs under a metro.
Each day brings its share of denunciations at the trial of the Brussels attacks. After Mohamed Abrini accusing the police of inappropriate searches, it is Salah Abdeslam’s turn to denounce police violence during his transfer from the Haren prison.
The lawyer of Houssein B., of Moroccan origin and accused of being one of the main perpetrators of the Brussels-National airport robbery in February 2013, pleaded on Monday before the Brussels Court of Appeal for his acquittal.
Since Monday, the Brussels Court of Appeal is trying four individuals accused of having participated in the famous robbery of a plane carrying diamonds at Brussels-National Airport in 2013. The defendants, including Houssein B., are accused of having stolen 121 packages containing diamonds, gold bars and precious stones for a total of 37 million euros.
Over the full year 2022, passenger traffic at Brussels Airport has increased sharply, thanks in part to Morocco, one of the most popular destinations for travelers. The number of passengers has almost doubled compared to 2021, but remains nevertheless below the pre-Covid period.
The appeal trial of the "crime of the century", the spectacular robbery of a plane carrying diamonds, committed in February 2013 at Brussels-National Airport in Zaventem, by a Moroccan and several other individuals of different nationalities, opened on Monday before the Brussels Court of Appeal.
This weekend, 152 flights (76 round-trip flights), including those serving Morocco, are being canceled at Charleroi-Brussels-South airport, Ryanair’s base and Belgium’s second busiest airport for passenger traffic. The reason is a strike by the low-cost Irish airline’s cabin crew.
An investigation has been opened in Brussels following a potential case of police violence that would have occurred in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, during the 2022 World Cup semi-final match between Morocco and France.
Yassine Mahi, the radicalized Belgian-Moroccan arrested for killing a police officer in Schaerbeek, will not know his fate before the end of the year. The Brussels council chamber has decided to extend his detention for at least one more month.
Due to a national demonstration organized by the unions this Friday, more than half of the flights departing from Brussels Airport have been canceled. Flights to Morocco are affected.
Demonstrations without major incidents took place in several cities in Belgium, following Morocco’s qualification for the World Cup semi-finals. But in Brussels, some disturbances occurred, leading to numerous arrests.