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Another operation against a criminal organisation dealing with the large-scale import of cocaine in Belgium took place on Tuesday.
Every day around 230 bicycles are reported stolen in Belgium. The actual figure is likely to be even higher as police believe that many thefts go unreported.
Five police officers were wounded yesterday, with three of them requiring hospitalisation, following a routine traffic stop in Molenbeek.
Brussels has come in 26th on The Economist’s biennial Safe Cities Index.
Following the release of the original suspect arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in Evere, a second suspect has been arrested.
Federal interior minister Annelies Verlinden has said that a database of names of people no longer welcome at recreation parks in Belgium would be developed, following Ghent’s decision to draw up
Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a woman on the street in Evere on Sunday evening. The woman was stabbed while walking home with her six-week-old baby in a pram.
The trial of 81 defendants who are alleged to be members of a large criminal organisation, the so-called 'Modest clan', started in Brussels on Monday.
A Brussels court handed down a six-month prison sentence and a €1,600 fine to a man for incitement to racial hatred based on threatening comments made on social media.
