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A hit-and-run driver who killed a woman on a pedestrian crossing in Schaerbeek has been ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service - a sentence that campaigners say is "unbearably lenient
Some 50 residents of Schaerbeek took to the streets in a wholly different way for a protest this morning. They didn’t march but lay on the ground.
The City of Brussels is facing a potential claim for "substantial damages" for wrongful dismissal, after a court cleared eight staff of stealing €127,000 of public money.
More than 20,000 people joined a silent march through Antwerp on Sunday against violence towards women, following the murder of a 23-year-old woman in the city last week.
Some 3,000 people took part in a silent wake yesterday evening in Antwerp to commemorate Julie Van Espen, who was murdered last weekend riding her bike in the city. She was 23 years old.
An activist who climbed to the top of the Coca-Cola sign at Place De Brouckere and hacked the display to condemn the transatlantic trade deal, TTIP, has avoided a fine and will spend no time in ja
Bruzz news site stirred up a storm this week with its list of the 10 worst places in Brussels for illegal dumping of trash and other waste. But it hasn’t stopped there.
Police have arrested five men in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old boy in Broechem, a district of Ranst in Antwerp province.
Bank robbers have been thwarted in Brussels, thanks to complaints by a neighbour. The bank in question is a Belfius branch on the Avenue de l’Eglise Sant-Julien in Auderghem.
