A 57-year-old priest from Bruges has been sentenced to one month of conditional cell punishment due to 'guilty negligence' in a suicide. The clergyman did not help when a 54-year-old man...
A 33-year-old Belgian from Zeebrugge has beaten his pregnant girlfriend to death and risks 10 years in prison. Although she had bruises and the apartment was full of blood spatter, he crept back into bed after the act, without alarm.
In the Belgian city of Bruges there has been an uproar about the annual Christmas market. From now on it will be called 'Wintermarkt', reports VTM Nieuws. The organizers change the name to not offend people with other beliefs.
Three dogs were taken from a sweltering car in Bruges on Saturday night. The dogs had been in the vehicle for 5.5 hours. A Bernese Mountain Dog had already died from dehydration when the animal was taken out of the car. A dog of the same breed was still alive, but collapsed shortly thereafter.
The Public Prosecution Service in Bruges appealed against the sentences for the four convicts in the case of the Flemish castle murder.
The four men who stand trial for the notorious murder of Flemish project developer and castle resident Stijn Saelens hear their punishment on Wednesday. Two of the suspects are Dutch.
A 21-year-old woman from Knokke-Heist in Belgium is in prison on suspicion of trying to kill her baby with poison. The boy was given Haldol, a remedy for psychosis. The mother denies involvement.
A 74-year-old Dutchman from the Belgian Beernem was brought to a hospital in a critical condition Wednesday afternoon after he had made an unfortunate fall on the ice and then sank through the ice. The accident occurred in the Assebroekse Meersen nature reserve near Bruges, the Public Prosecution Service in Bruges reported.
Almost a year after the pro-forma session, the famous cause of the castle murder will start next Tuesday. Four suspects are arrested for the murder of Belgian castle lord Stijn Saelens in 2012. Among them the Dutchman Roy L., who would have carried out the murder with his now deceased uncle Ronny van B. from Eindhoven.
A 43-year-old man from Bruges had to stand before the Belgian criminal judge on Thursday for three facts of public sex offense. Bahri T. stood among the window of a cafe with his genitals to swing. The Public Prosecutor demands a year in prison and a fine of 2000 euros. The judge pronounces on 8 March.
The Belgian Ivo Poppe, also known as the 'deacon of death', has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for five murders, including on his mother. The so-called Assize Court in Bruges imposed this punishment on Thursday on the 61-year-old dying counselor from Wevelgem. The Public Prosecutor had demanded for life.
A 43-year-old woman was declared brain-dead on New Year's Day after a fall on the skating rink in the center of Bruges. She went on the ice just after midnight to dance.
The lawsuit about the so-called castle murder in Belgium continues on 20 February. The lawyers of the four suspects can then make their pleas. Almost two weeks have been allocated for this. The lawyers would actually argue in October, but this was delayed due to a final request for refusal.
A passer-by in Bruges alerted the police on Tuesday evening when he thought he was seeing a snowman who had been snowbound and perhaps already deadly frozen on a bank in the Belgian city.
The Bruges prosecutor's office contradicts previous reports that the police in West-Middelkerke found a decapitated body in the trunk of a car during a traffic check. 'The body did show very severe injuries at the neck,' said a spokesperson. Several people have been arrested.
The elections held by the Spanish government in Catalonia on 21 December will be a public opinion on Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. That is what the deposed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont believes.
The 57-year-old priest Alexander Stroobandt from Bruges has to be responsible for the judge for a suicide case. He did not seek help when a 54-year-old told him about his suicide plans. According to Flemish media, the priest appeals to confessional secrecy.
The Belgian police have received information about a possible attack before the start of the practice between Belgium and Japan. The police confirmed Tuesday night that the access controls were sharpened at the Jan Breydel Stadium in Bruges because of the terror threat. The match was played.
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In a Belgian part of the North Sea, an almost intact submarine of the First World War was found. Scientists assume that the bodies of the 23 crew members are still on board. That made the governor of West Flanders Carl Decaluwé known Tuesday morning.
The municipality of Bruges will draw up a 'anti-loneliness plan' after the discovery, three days in a row, of three deceased people in their own house. Two women aged 47 and 80 and a 41-year-old man lay unnoticed at home for ten and thirty days, until the police had been warned by stench and flying.
The Belgian authorities arrested three Dutch and one Belgian after the finding of one and a half tonnes of cocaine aboard a fishing boat. The street value of the hard drugs can rise to 225 million euros, according to the Belgian justice Wednesday.
The chief suspect in the castle murder unexpectedly made a confession on Tuesday night. The main verdict, André G., said during the lawsuit he ordered to bring Kasteelheer Stijn Saelens to life.
The four men in Belgium in the process of the so-called castle murder are heard on June 12th. That particular court in Bruges on Tuesday. Two of the four suspects are Dutch.
The football world is following the plane crash in Colombia mourning, with the Brazilian club Chapeco Armenian is involved.
