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Security around Belgium's justice minister, Vincent Van Quickenborne, and his family has been tightened after an apparent kidnapping attempt was foiled.

A still taken of the robbery from the CCTV camera in the woman's home
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Two fake parcel deliverers robbed a woman at her home in Schaerbeek last week, Bruzz reports.

Illicit tobacco trade
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Illegal cigarette factories in Belgium are making more and more counterfeit cigarettes, with a large quantity destined for the clandestine market in France.

Armed police stand on guard at the departure hall of Brussels airport in Zaventem. (BELGA PHOTO POOL DIDIER LEBRUN)
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The "Brussels Airport 2022-2025 safety plan" was announced on Wednesday, the first security structure to officially link the airport's on-site police and customs service and professionalise the co

Belgian Federal Police drug trafficking investigation
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Belgian police raided 49 houses across the country on Tuesday morning as part of an international police investigation into cocaine trafficking through the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam. 

A pickpocket lifts a wallet from an unsuspecting victim (Google images)
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Police officers specialised in arresting pickpockets in the Brussels-Ixelles area made 304 arrests in 2021.

Panoramic view with windmill and white horse" of Pieter Brueghel the alder which was stolen of the national museum of Dresden in 1942, presented in the Antwerp fine arts museum. (BELGA PHOTO WIM HENDRIX)
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Since 1 January 2022, the unit of the federal judicial police specialising in the fight against the trafficking in cultural property is no longer active, following a decision from interior ministe

This screenshot taken from a video and distributed on Saturday 15 January 2022, shows a 55-year-old woman victim of a push incident on Friday 14 January 2022, by a 23-year-old French man, at Metro station Rogier, in the city centre of Brussels, Saturday 15 January 2022. (BELGA PHOTO STRINGER)
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‎Some 1,600 Stib workers have signed an online petition calling on the management of the transport company to show leniency towards the employee who filmed the surveillance camera footage showing

Illustration shows the city hall of the Anderlecht municipality. (BELGA PHOTO THIERRY ROGE)
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The town council of Anderlecht has dismissed four members of the municipal administration for their participation in a driving licence fraud, according to a statement from the Brussels commune.

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