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A plan to combat violence on public transport in Flanders includes allowing ticket inspectors to wear bodycams and issuing individual bans on boarding buses.
Brussels mayor Philippe Close and the capital’s police force have come under fire for defending the administrative arrests of schoolchildren in the aftermath of recent rioting in France.
Police from the Brussels-West police division (Molenbeek, Berchem-Saint-Agathe, Ganshoren, Jette and Koekelberg) are in the news again, following a drunken fight with Brussels schoolchildren.
One person has died and another has been seriously injured after a fight between rival gangs on a platform at Zaventem station on Friday.
Conductors for Belgian rail operator SNCB are protesting until at least 15 February after a spate of violent attacks from passengers that have left them feeling unsafe on the job.
Eleven young people along with the Belgian Human Rights League (LDH) are taking the country to court over the use of violence from police against protestors in a demonstration in Brussels on 24 Ja
Belgians rang in the new year differently across the country, but in Brussels and Antwerp in particular, some celebrations got out of hand.
Almost 30 officers in the Brussels-North police division called in sick this week in an act of protest following an incident in which a minor attacked an officer with a knife.
The City of Brussels is bracing itself for the next World Cup match featuring Morocco, after a previous victory this week led to rioting and 119 arrests.
