The 'typesetter' hits in Pelt, in Heusden-Zolder and Genk. In the Meerdaalwoud countless spruces need to be cut down after damage by this bark beetle, and also the Heverleebos is...
A Belgian mother has turned her house into a trading house for hard drugs. During a search, 1,230 ctc pills were found in the oven. A bottle of MDMA was in the fridge, while she lived with her 7-year-old daughter.
A person was badly injured after an ambulance hit a lamppost in Genk, Belgium. The person was in the ambulance and was transported with light complaints to the hospital of Overpelt when the ambulance collided with the lamppost.
Seven of the twelve men who picked up the Belgian police on Tuesday evening in a big action against the Hells Angels remain in the cell. After interrogation, the investigating judge released five of them, two of them under conditions, the federal prosecutor announced.
The police have done raids in clubhouses of the motorcycle club Hells Angels in the Belgian province of Limburg. During the raids in Genk and Lanaken, two police helicopters were also deployed.
A forty-year-old nurse from Bree, who forgot an 83-year-old resident of a residential care center in Genk in the toilet, was acquitted by the court. The prosecution asked a prison sentence of one year conditionally early this month.
At Belgian sites of the French supermarket chain Carrefour, a maximum of 1233 jobs disappear.
A woman (40) was Wednesday in the court to account for the death of an 83-year-old elderly in nursing home Toermalien in the Belgian Genk. The nurse had placed the woman on the toilet in the evening, but then forgot to put her in bed. The stuck elderly person of Turkish origin fell over and died of suffocation.
Racist statements on the Facebook page of the extreme-right Flemish Defence League (VVL) are the subject of a lawsuit. Justice in Antwerp is concerned with the subpoena following a complaint equal opportunity center Unia filed last year. The lawsuit is possible in the autumn.
The Belgian newspaper De Morgen on Wednesday made a powerful statement against racist reactions to the news that a 15-year-old Belgian boy of Moroccan origin was killed in a quad bike accident in Morocco. 'Racism without shame' the newspaper headlined on a black front page with the collected responses.
The Belgian police on Monday searched Genk station and a train, looking for Salah Abdeslam. Someone thought the terrorists involved in the attacks in Paris was involved last November, having seen on the platform.
The T2-campus (Talent and Technology) on the Thor in Genk will receive 12.5 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). This brings the realization of the campus 'a serious step forward.' That made the Flemish Minister for Economy and Work, Philippe Muyters, Wednesday.
Two suspects in the murder of the Belgian top criminal Silvio Aquino ( 41 ) were arrested in Germany. Flemish media reported Tuesday that the two suspects late last week were arrested in Cologne. Belgium has requested their extradition.
