Following the lifting of the ban on foreign travel in Belgium, Brussels Airport is pursuing a commercial policy aimed at encouraging travelers to book flights. For its part, the airline Brussels Airlines is offering three new air links from Brussels to Morocco this summer.
On the run since December 2019, Youssef Ben Hamou , a Moroccan-born kickboxer, presented as a "dangerous criminal", was arrested in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht on April 29. Wanted for murder, drug trafficking and possession, armed robbery, illegal possession of firearms, etc., he had been sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of Ray Tensaini in the Netherlands.
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".
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.
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.
The appeal trial of the Islamic State fighter returned from Syria to Belgium, Noura Firoud, widow of one of the founders of Sharia4Belgium, has been postponed to May 6. This is the decision that has just been made by the Brussels Correctional Court.
The surroundings of the Brussels Central Station recorded on Sunday an unusual demonstration that mobilized representatives of the Jewish, Islamic and Christian faiths. They are asking the authorities to ease the measures affecting places of worship, which remain, despite the health crisis situation, a real obstacle to freedom of worship.
The Belgo-Moroccan jihadist Gelel Attar has displayed, through his lawyer, his opposition to the deprivation of his Belgian nationality before the Brussels criminal court. This deprivation had been pronounced last July after his conviction in the "Zerkani" case for acts of terrorism, his alleged involvement in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris.
Titled "Mosaic", a new exhibition has been taking place since February 5 at the Centrissime, the body responsible for promoting the Pays du Centre region. This new exhibition is an opportunity for a meeting between three photographers and citizens of Muslim traditions, origins or cultures in Brussels or Wallonia.
Nabil S., a Moroccan residing in Belgium, escaped a 15-year prison sentence before the 90th criminal chamber of the Court of First Instance in Brussels. He was on trial for the murder of Mohamed Hammas, a 28-year-old man, killed by a bullet in the chest in the Colruyt parking lot in Schaerbeek on April 11, 2012.
In the Brussels Criminal Court, a sentence of five years in prison was requested against Faiza H., the widow of Feisal Yamoun, one of the co-founders of the Salafist group Sharia4Belgium.
In Brussels, a violent fight broke out on Saturday, January 23, between local youths and migrants. The report indicates several injured.