No car could be seen in dozens of Belgian city centers. Among others, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, Kortrijk and Mechelen participated in Autoloze Zondag. 'By car-free streets, cities and municipalities are not only more livable, but sustainable transport is also good for the environment and health', according to the organizers. In Brussels, the entire public transport was free on Sundays.
In 41 Belgian cities and municipalities Sunday is not allowed to take the road by car. On the car-free Sunday, numerous activities take place with regard to sustainability, the environment and health.
Because of the absent-mindedness of an animal keeper, she was able to escape from her stay in a zoo in Belgium at the end of last month. The woman did not realize that a safety lock was open. The lioness was shot dead after unsuccessfully attempting to stun the animal.
Detainees serving a long prison sentence must lose their social housing.
Because young people have thrown stones on the tracks from a bridge, train traffic between Brussels-North and Schaarbeek is temporarily interrupted on Tuesday evening. 'We do this for safety reasons,' says Thomas Baeken of Infrabel.
A lioness escaped from the Planckendael Zoo, in Mechelen, Belgium. According to VTM News, the staff was evacuated as a precaution.
A Belgian woman is angry that her hairdresser charges twice as much as for men. She filed a complaint with the Institute for Equality between Women and Men.
A brother and his sister from Mechelen who quarrel around the clock, including about their lovely dog, are not allowed to see each other for a month. Within a month they are expected again at court.
The Belgian Renaud Hardy was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two women he had raped and tortured, and murder attempts on two other women. A folk jury had already convicted the 55-year-old man from Mechelen on Wednesday evening at the Assisenhof in Tongeren. The punishment followed a day later.
The Belgian police arrested eight terror suspects on suspicion of preparing an attack. No weapons or explosives would have been found during house searches.
The Mechelen police warn of a life-threatening game played by some young people in the Belgian city. They suddenly jump for a moving car, so the driver has to brake immediately. That writes Gazet van Antwerpen.
A number of students from BIMSEM, a secondary school in the Belgian city of Mechelen, no longer want to receive lessons from their gymnastics teacher. During a gymnast, she had given a classmate on her backside a 'chat'.
Belgium is virtually due to its plasma plasma stock AB. This is because fought for the life of one patient who needs up to fifteen bags every day for weeks.
A Belgian woman has this week attended her funeral in Mechelen. The deceased was her sister, but because of an administrative error in the past really wrong anyone under the assumption that she was dead.
The police in Mechelen, Belgium with a colleague arrested would have spread racist images of a commissioner. The inspector had a picture of the female commissioner of Indian descent equipped racist terms.
A food bank in Mechelen, Belgium quits because customers are too picky. Employees found in the parking lot more often discarded food and demotivating the volunteers so that they have to throw down the towel.
Belgian archaeologists on Wednesday found the stomach and intestines of the former regent of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria. The casket with the body parts was as hoped in a cavity under a tile in the Mechelen St. Peter's and Paul's Church.
The Belgian jihad connoisseur Montasser AlDe'emeh Thursday sentenced to a suspended prison sentence of six months and a fine of 600 euros. The court in Mechelen declared him guilty of issuing a false statement for a jihad suspect. Justice had demanded a year in jail.
It is not charged to the hideout of terrorist Salah Abdeslam was not timely in the database of the police chief of Mechelen. That the Antwerp report after investigation on the exchange of information within the police write Belgian media.
Police in Antwerp have arrested one of the ringleaders of Sharia4Belgium. Said M'Nari'd recently returned from Syria where he had joined Islamic terrorist groups, the Flemish station VRT reported Saturday. Late last year the Federal Prosecutor spread a message about detection M'Nari.
The Belgian railways Wednesday one of the tracks in the Walloon Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse back into use. On the route three people were killed Sunday in a train collision.
A. Hamid, the inspector received a tip in November about the final hideout of terror suspect Salah Abdeslam, a complaint against the top of the Mechelen police. He does not take it to the chief information would be mentioned unclear and unreliable, he said Monday in Belgian media.
A seventeen-year-old South African boy has confessed to have made a number of false bomb threats. The teenager was arrested Monday after a bomb at different Mechelen schools.
The Belgian authorities have done Sunday morning raids in thirteen places in the context of anti-terrorism investigations. Mechelen were searched four houses in Brussels and Laeken three in Duffel, Molenbeek and Anderlecht each one.
Sanoma Belgium deletes 65 jobs. That made the Belgian branch of the Finnish media company announced Thursday after a meeting with the works council.
The Belgian jihad connoisseur Montasser AlDe'emeh, affiliated with the Radboud University in Nijmegen, was arrested Monday. Police arrested the man at his home in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek suspicion of forgery, reported local media.
