The extortion scandal at the Antwerp police force is a fifth suspect surfaced. According to the Belgian public broadcaster VRT is the man not arrested because he is in the United States at this time.
The suspicion against police officers of the corps of Antwerp turns turning to extortion of illegal immigrants. Three inspectors are still in custody, a fourth Wednesday released under certain conditions and may not attend to work.
Some police officers of the Antwerp police have behaved unlawful. There is an investigation into,, serious offenses committed by police officers in the performance of their duties and in uniform, 'reported the mayor of Antwerp Bart De Wever Wednesday.
The German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate go to the European Commission and the United Nations complaining about the Belgian nuclear power plants Doel and Tihange.
Pedophiles could strike for months via the Dutch website Kinderchat.nl. According to a Belgian abuse case.
Groups of self-propelled vehicles will be on April 5 on Flemish freeways driving during a European pilot project on the initiative of the Netherlands. Trucks of Volvo, Iveco and DAF participate in the project. The trucks drive in groups, in which the first determines the route and speed, and the others that follow, while they are constantly communicate with each other.
A 54-year-old woman from Belgium have five years in jail, because she was the hub of a network that money from a South American drug cartel laundered. The court in Antwerp has confiscated almost 8.5 million.
At a waste disposal company in the port of Antwerp has a large explosion occurred Friday. There is a huge black cloud of smoke above that seen in the wide area, reports the Gazet van Antwerpen. Whether dead or injured, is still unclear.
A driving school in Antwerp is suspected of having certificates of good behavior provided to people who had no lessons. With that evidence they could get a provisional license at the town hall.
Belgium had the end of January 117 returned Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War. According to figures which MP Koen Metsu (N-VA) has received from Interior Minister Jan Jambon. Most returned Foreign rebel fighters in the Syrian Civil War come from Brussels and surroundings (59). By province spans Antwerp (16) the crown.
The Belgian authorities have opened an investigation into a 24-year-old Antwerp on his way to Libya to join there with terrorist Islamic State. The man is not much known, but he would be the first Belgian Libiëstrijder.
Islamic State has put online a video in which the terrorist group threatens new attacks. A Flemish Syriëstrijder mentions in the video,, France, the United States and Russia and all countries that follow them '' as potential targets.
Belgium wants to better secure its stations. Minister of Mobility Jacqueline Galant has asked the government for this purpose to release 58.5 million euros.
The Dutchman Pieter C. recently in Belgium to nineteen years in prison convicted of, inter alia, sexual abuse of young children, is internationally identified. The sexagenarian man has been placed on the list of most wanted by Interpol.
Not only in Cologne, also in the Belgian city of Antwerp is the anti-Islam movement Pegida Saturday went to the streets. Hundreds of people protested there against Islam and the influx of asylum seekers. Also referred to the mass assault in Cologne.
Police in Antwerp during the New Year's Eve plucked masse because they were heard at a banquet hall in the city of gunshots. It turned out to not be a shooting or possible attack, but joy fired a cap gun.
The Belgian reactor Tihange 1, located on the River Meuse between Namur and Liège, Saturday is rebooted. This has involved the electricity company Electrabel announced Saturday. Tihange 1 was shut down Friday after there had been a fire in the non-nuclear part of the plant.
The Belgian electricity company Electrabel in the night from Thursday to Friday, at 1:00 pm, unexpectedly shut down its nuclear reactor Doel 3 because of a water leak. That is confirmed by the power company.
A private plane coming from Antwerp on Monday intercepted by a fighter of the French Air Force. It's on the news website L' Obs. The plane flew over Paris and that is not in connection with the strict security measures for the climate conference in the French capital.
In the Antwerp Zoo is an okapi born. The birth of the closest living relative of the giraffe is important because the okapi is threatened with extinction. Antwerp Zoo coordinates the European breeding program for this species and manages the studbook to safeguard the survival of the species.
A 37-year-old Bengal must be three years the Belgian jail for rape. The man had stuck his tongue into the mouth of a 22- year-old woman to kiss her. The French kiss was so brutal that the judge saw this as an "act of sexual penetration against the will " rape so.
Police in Belgium have headpiece S.A. arrested by the Salafist movement The Way of Life. That movement is seen as the successor of Sharia4Belgium which the judge designated terrorist group. According to the newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen sit four leaders of The Way of Life is now behind bars.
Passengers on international trains Thalys, TGV and ICE from Brussels-Midi or Antwerp Central are invited thirty minutes earlier to be present for security checks. This was reported by the international arm of the Belgian railway SNCB Monday on Twitter. The security checks are a result of the high threat level in the Brussels Region.
Ex- leader Fouad Belkacem of the controversial movement Sharia4Belgium is isolated in the prison of Antwerp. He may temporarily have no contact with other prisoners. Nor should he not go for a walk or relax. Visit may be received behind a glass wall. On that message, the newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen Monday.
Former mayor of Molenbeek Philippe Moureaux (PS) denies that its policy was too loose, but admits he has made mistakes. He should deal more with the young people in the disputed Brussels municipality, he said Sunday on Belgian television.
Apple gives its mapping service Apple Maps backstage regular updates and Friday, the company has focused its attention on the Netherlands and Belgium. Maps are in Utrecht and Antwerp henceforth namely in 3D view, which was One More Thing on.
Three schools in Antwerp on Friday morning called and threatened with bombs. The three bomb threats may lead to the evacuation of the affected schools, reported the news agency Belga.
Antwerp's ring Wednesday in both directions was briefly closed at the height of the Sportpaleis. Police briefly held after 16:30 a car because there is a suspicious package in the trunk would be, reported local media. Around 17:15 the ring was again prepared for all traffic.
It is high time that the broom goes through in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. The Belgian Minister Jan Jambon Safety Interior is tired of the Brussels borough is still a stronghold of Islamic radicals. He wants to eradicate extremism,null, root and branch. "
The Belgian actress Dora van der Groen is deceased Sunday at the age of 88. This Vaamse media Monday reported on the authority of her family.
