A group of Belgian young people aged sixteen to nineteen years old wanted to commit an attack in Antwerp. This has confirmed the Belgian judiciary. Wednesday were arrested in the investigation of four people young terror cell in a series of raids.
The Belgian police made raids Wednesday on eight addresses associated with terrorism investigation. According to the federal prosecutor no weapons or explosives were found, but there would have been planning an attack in Belgium.
The planners and perpetrators of a massive fraud in the Antwerp diamond sector have received prison sentences Tuesday to four years. They also have to repay together more than 100 million dollars they have earned through fraud, report local media.
The Antwerp triathlete Sofie Goos (36) was injured Sunday when she was neergesteken by a stranger during a training course. She writes.
Sly thieves in the port of Antwerp tens of thousands of liters of diesel stolen. The collar criminals a hole in an underground pipe and then tapped using a garden hose huge amounts of the fuel.
In a Belgian prison has been restless again. Sunday did dozens of detainees in the Antwerp prison Begijnenstraat not return to their cells. The police were asked for assistance and was able to recover, among other fairly quickly with pepper spray the rest.
Dozens of detainees from the prison of the Belgian Merksplas are Saturday rebelled against their guards. About 170 prisoners occupied the courtyard of the prison and founded fires, Flemish broadcaster VRT reported.
In Antwerp Wednesday a two-year-old child were killed in an accident with an elevator. The boy was with his father and another child on the rise and probably got stuck between doors.
A double-sided pen and brush drawings by the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp Monday auctioned for 670,000 euros. Advance the value of the work that recently appeared in an estate, estimated at 300,000 to 500,000.
A panicked phone call from the cargo compartment of a refrigerator has eight refugees rescued from their plight. On the screens above the Antwerp highways Friday appeared a conspicuous notice ': check all cargo to refrigerated trucks. The message was posted after police received a desperate call from the refugees, the Gazet van Antwerpen reported Saturday.
The Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon, is embarrassed by a video on the Internet. It shows how the official car of the minister on the back too hard races on the Belgian motorway.
After Antwerp has now Brussels police scandal, two young officers were arrested as they left foreign drivers stop on the Brussels ring, their trucks ransacked and money confiscated. they would have stolen 5300 euros a Romanian driver. A Pole lost a smaller amount.
Racist agents of the Antwerp police are not called to order. That requires the commission that investigated after complaints of minority police officers to racism within the Antwerp police force, reports the Gazet van Antwerpen.
Belgium monitors the port of Antwerp among other drones. That Defence Minister Steven Vandeput Sunday revealed during the TV program The Seventh Day One. He said that the security of strategic locations in the country during the elevated threat level requires a lot of the military.
The Doel 3 nuclear reactor near Antwerp's Sunday morning started again, as informed the Engie energy company Electrabel. The plant was automatically shut last Thursday after a problem with a test program.
One of the nuclear reactors at Doel, near the Dutch border over Antwerp, will lie still until late May. That made the operator of the nuclear reactor Engie Electrabel Thursday.
Studio 100 has become the victim of a,, significant fraud '. That the Belgian entertainment company, maker of popular children's programs as Plop and Piet Pirate, published Monday. A 44-year-old employee with a leading position in the company is suspected of fraud.
A call from a Belgian jihadist from Syria to his mother in Antwerp has put the police in the Belgian town in a heightened state of readiness. The message gave the man his mother could signal an impending attack.
A burglar who always listened at the door to make sure that the residents were not at home to prison. He was caught because of his ear impression, which is as unique as a fingerprint.
A terror suspect has briefly been started to help in the canteen of the judicial police in Antwerp. That Nieuwsblad reported Thursday. After about an hour were investigators of the federal judicial police realized that something was wrong with the new kitchen help and he was expelled from the door.
The Belgian prosecutor has indicted three more people on suspicion of participating in a terrorist group. This was announced by the prosecutor's office Monday. A fourth suspect was released.
In a video IS has again claimed the attacks in Brussels, reported several Belgian media in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
Airline Brussels Airlines carries at least until Sunday as many European flights from the airports of Antwerp and Liege. That has provided a company spokesman said Thursday morning.
Thursday also closed the international airport near Brussels. That made Brussels Airport announced via Twitter.
The intensive checks at the border between Belgium and the Netherlands on Tuesday led to long queues. That report the ANWB and the Traffic Information Service (VID).
Companies in the port of Antwerp should be extra vigilant and report suspicious matters as quickly as possible to the police. That call did the Port Authority in the second Belgian city Tuesday following the attacks in Brussels. There will also be additional police patrols.
Direct has diverted air traffic control all traffic on the way to Brussels after the terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport Tuesday morning around 8:00 am. A total of 32 aircraft were directed to other destinations. That made the Belgian air traffic control Belgocontrol Tuesday.
The Kinepolis cinema in Antwerp Tuesday evacuated by order of the federal crisis center in Belgium.
Many public places have been cleared in Brussels, public transport is completely silent and people should stay where they are. The networks are overloaded, making calls is not recommended.
The Dutch DJ Howard Kaii was killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand.
