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In an erotic case in the Antwerp Schipperskwartier a man (74) was found dead Tuesday morning. He died during a peep show.

The Belgian police were on Wednesday at twenty addresses scattered across the country in a major investigation into illegal arms trade.

A Brussels gay couple must return their adopted son of fifteen months to the biological mother of the child now that the woman has come up with her and has gone to court. The couple are tired of grief. 'The only family he knows is us.'

The family Holsman won scratch free 1 minute shopping at the Albert Heijn in Antwerp, but this family decided not to 'collect' it themselves. They donated the prize to Kamiano, a homeless shelter in the Belgian city.

Investigators of the parquet of Antwerp performed a search at the offices of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT in Brussels on Saturday evening. The search was conducted in the case of Bart De Pauw. The VRT broke the contract with the presenter of the quiz 'Two to Sixth Power' earlier this week due to complaints about cross-border behavior.

The Amsterdam Denise Vandyck appears to have been married for six years with 'De Reus', one of the men now considered to be the head of the Belgian gang of Nijvel.

The student party 'Boer is looking for harlot TD' does not work well in Antwerp, just like the posters of the festival. Feminist students draw the announcements of the wall.

On the found computer of a Flemish jihad bride from Raqqa, there appears to be a lot of porn. The Belgian from IS area also regularly looked for Ajax results.

The mayor of Antwerp, Bart De Wever, is the only candidate for the presidency of the New Flemish Alliance. That has announced the Liberal Conservative and Flemish Nationalist Party on Saturday afternoon. During the party council on November 18, it becomes clear whether the presiding presidency may begin as its N-VA leader on its fifth term.

About thirty police officers in Antwerp are suspected to have been playing online during working hours. For police officers it is forbidden to participate in gambling or betting.

In Scotland a nearly 400 year old painting was discovered attributed to the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. According to the BBC, it is a head study from about 1625 by George Villiers, Buckingham's Buck.

It was known decades ago that hair cracks were part of the nuclear power plants in the Belgian cities Tihange and Doel. These were noted during the construction phase of the first reactors in the seventies. The power companies knew that, writes Der Spiegel on Friday.

A Dutch young woman who is married to a jihadist tells her that she wants to go back to the Netherlands but has no regret of her choice. 'It was a school of learning.'

The Colombian mafia and among other Dutch drug gangs increasingly use the port of Antwerp to smuggle into cocaine Europe. They would do that because containers are checked less thoroughly than in Rotterdam, for example. The Belgian authorities have announced an offensive.

Some Belgian companies in telecom, diamonds and chemistry have received suspicious payments from the regime in Azerbaijan.

The Amsterdammer Marlon G., who is suspected of abducting a so-called jihad bride, stays stuck, so the court decided in Den Bosch.

The container ship that stuck on the Westerschelde on Monday had a problem with the helm. That has revealed an inspection. What caused the problem is further investigated. 'We still need to determine what was wrong, there is a lot of mechanics behind,' says a spokeswoman from the Port of Antwerp, where the ship is on a dock.

A 27-year-old man sat unwell on the back seat of a tram in Antwerp for seven hours while other travelers thought he was sleeping during the rides. According to Belgian media on Friday, surveillance cameras saw how the man got into the tram and sat in an attitude that suggested he was in a deep sleep.

The Belgian Dirk van der Put becomes the new topman of the food manufacturer Mondelez (Oreo, Tuc Cookies).

Consuming eggs in Belgium is safe. The first results of analyzes on fipronil contaminated eggs 'are reassuring for public health,' reports the Federal Food Safety Authority (FAVV) Wednesday. 'European thresholds have not been exceeded.'

Retrieval requests from suspects to Belgium are temporarily arrested until further clarification about detention conditions in Belgian prisons.

The Spanish police arrested a Dutchman for large-scale drug trafficking in the south of the country. The 34-year-old man from Roosendaal, who lives in Benalmadena near Malaga, has been searched for a while by the Belgian authorities. The man would play an important role in an organization that smuggles drugs through the port of Antwerp, Spanish media reported on Monday by police.

A 48-year-old woman from the Belgian Laak Valley is in critical condition at the hospital after a bizarre accident on the N19 towards Antwerp. The Flemish was so badly injured that her legs had to be amputated. The victim is held in artificial coma.

The traffic rules for bicycles in Belgium will be sharpened soon. For example, bikes that are wider than one meter are required to drive on the normal lane. But traffic experts pull the bell. For example, wearing a belt in a bicycle is still not mandatory. 'A sad thing,' said Ivan Bruggeman.

A Belgian couple was arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of an Antwerp man whose body was found in a house in Roosendaal in June. That is what the Antwerp parquet says. The 62-year-old Frank Serruys would be strangled.

Antwerpers with a dog risk a fine of up to 350 euros if they just let their pet puddle everywhere. 'Teach your dog not to raise his paw wherever he wants', is the advice of the municipality.

The man who was arrested in Antwerp on Saturday afternoon for crossing the ax was on his way to a photo shoot. There was no terrorism, according to the Belgian Public Prosecutor.

Belgian soldiers held a man with an ax on Saturday and handed him to the police. That reports Belgian media.

In Belgian prisons, two hundred detainees have to sleep on the ground. Particularly in Antwerp, Ghent and Hasselt, single-celled ten-square-meter cells are often used by three detainees. Two sleeping in a bunk bed, number three is on a mattress on the floor, according to De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws.

The 39-year-old man who broke through a shopping street in the pedestrian area in Antwerp in March comes free. The Antwerp court committed a deposit of 5000 euros to his release two weeks ago, but that condition was removed on Monday in appeal.