The carnival in Aalst, the best known and largest carnival event in Belgium, may disappear from the UNESCO list for intangible cultural heritage. Reason is a float early this month...
In Aalst, Belgium, a man with his car is driven a few meters on a carnival parade.
Nick Blanckaert (29) wanted to enjoy a techno party this weekend, but instead he was maltreated by two men, one of whom was biting his ear. 'Suddenly I felt his teeth. You heard the cartilage crack. '
The house of the supposed Giant of the Gang of Nijvel is for sale. For the amount of 169,000 euros, the former home of ex-rector Christiaan Bonkoffsky is offered.
Weather or no weather: the 27-year-old Birger Verpeten from the Belgian province of East Flanders simply jumps into his pool. In Adam costume.
The relatives of the victims of the Bende van Nijvel want a Dutch cold case expert to investigate the murders. That says the lawyer of one of the survivors, Het Nieuwsblad reports.
It is such a story that every carnival society hopes to never experience: the carnival car that burns out, and after years of procedures still have to pay over 7 tons, or 24,000 euros per person. 'This is terrible, many have to sell their house.'
A Belgian of 21 went to the hospital of Aalst last weekend. The man had at least 6.4 percent alcohol in his blood. Apparently, his parents found the performance of their son remarkable, the Belgian newspaper notes Het Laatste Nieuws. 'His previous record was 6.2 percent,' they said.
The mystery around the gang of Nijvel is 'a smudge on the rule of law we must try to erase.' That said the Belgian Minister of Justice Koen Geens on the annual commemoration of the robbery by the gang at a supermarket in Aalst in 1985, with eight deaths falling.
New revelations in the case around the gang of Nijvel seem to accelerate the matter. Minister van Justitie Geens convenes emergency consultation on the dossier on Sunday evening, reports Belgian media. There is consultation at high level, with the full college of prosecutors general.
Professor Wil van der Aalst of the Technical University in Eindhoven won the most valuable German research award. An amount of 5 million euros is attached to the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize.
A study trip to Greece of a Belgian 'elite school' is so out of control that four students are promptly put back on the plane. The students would include have pissed the bed of an autistic classmate.
The Belgian police Tuesday plucked at the OLV Hospital in Aalst after a witness reported that suspects might have entered the hospital.
Flanders wants to have a year along all motorways process controls, which virtually everywhere keep an eye on the speed of the road user. The Flemish Minister for Mobility, ben weyts, said Monday at the VTM News that the motorist must keep going almost anywhere on the motorway the speed limit for 2019, as there will be keeping track.
The Belgian beer culture is now intangible cultural heritage. The UN organization UNESCO has decided it Wednesday in Ethiopia.
A 19-year-old student of a school for special education in the Belgian town of Aalst Thursday fired by his classmates. The teenager was taking second-degree burns.
A Belgian priest claims a host of two hundred years has started to bleed spontaneously in his private chapel in Aalst. The 64-year-old Eric Jacqmin himself speaks of a miracle, but the diocese of Ghent keeps the boat.
