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The images that surfaced hundreds of women in saunas, swimming pools, dressing rooms and other public places earlier this week may also include Belgian victims. On the images that the NOS investigated, a twitterer believes that the dressing room of the sports hall of Hogeschool Gent is recognizable. HoGent has now filed a complaint

The Flemish government is concerned about the restoration of the most important artwork of Flanders, the altarpiece Lam Gods of the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck. In response to reports of a problem with the humidity in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Prime Minister Geert Bourgeois and Culture Minister Sven Gatz call together everyone who is involved in the restoration.

The 54-year-old Belgian who entered the E40 on Monday evening at the shop of a Texaco filling station where a Dutchman was killed remains in the cell. That has been decided by the council chamber in Ghent. Two other Dutch people who were also in the shop were seriously injured.

The railway police of Belgium has shot a man on Tuesday evening at the station of Gent-Sint-Pieters. The man would have had a knife with him. The public prosecutor confirms that this is a serious incident, also NMBS reports on Twitter that it is a shooting incident.

The stormy weather also causes nuisance in Belgium. The train traffic suffers here and there from damage to the overhead line and objects on the rails. At the request of the NS, the Thalys operates on the normal track, and not on the high-speed route.

The traditional New Year fireworks in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend has been canceled due to the bad weather. The region is on Sunday for hard gusts with coast speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour and a lot of rain. The municipality therefore renounces the annual firework festival, reported Belgian media.

The Belgian Public Prosecution Service (OM) has demanded 27 years in prison against Isabel D. (42), the woman who killed her Dutch husband and kept her for almost a year in the freezer in her home. Against Olaf P. (48), who helped in this, was demanded for 20 years.

We have to do it with locally wet snow, but our southern neighbors have been made happy by Mother Nature with heavy snow showers in various parts of the country. As a result, there is a snow-white blanket over the landscape. View the photos and videos below.

Facebook has again blocked a picture of a newborn baby because a nipple was visible. The snapshot was made by the Belgian photographer Marijke Thoen. Although the photo is now online again, Thoen is fierce.

A Ghent hospital must pay € 264,000 in damages and penalties for the 'unintentional killing' of the 13-year-old anorexia patient Liselotte. The girl died in May 2011 after nutritionally placed gastric tube in her lungs.

In an explosion in a factory of steel producer ArcelorMittal in the port of Ghent, a dead and two serious injuries occurred Wednesday afternoon. Some people are also missing. VTM News reports that.

Two platforms from a Belgian train station were evacuated on Friday after the phone of 'suspects' departed. As a ringtone the words 'Allahu akbar' sounded. That was for an agent in a citizen to make an alarm.

In the Flemish city of Ghent, a young child fell meters down when it fell into an apartment building from the window. The current state of the child is unknown.

Cardinal Joseph de Kesel of Archdiocese Mechelen-Brussels has been summoned as a witness in a trial against the 'Deacon of Death'. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium is heard in Ghent in January because of the case against ex-deacon Ivo Poppe. It is suspected of at least ten murders on the elderly.

A man was rushed to the popular market in the Ghent district of Wondelgem on Sunday morning. The ravage was huge, but by miracle there was only one wounded. Last News reported on his site that, according to witnesses, the Audi cabrio came off at the 100km per hour.

Watching an evening online episodes of a series is not good for the night's rest. The mental excitement that these so-called bingewatches entail causes less sleep. This is evidenced by research by communication scientist Liese Exelmans of Ghent University.

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

Tomatoes taste more delicious when grown with salt water, researchers from Ghent University indicate. Due to the salt, the tomatoes absorb less moisture, resulting in more sugars in the fruit. The water absorption of the plants is better controlled by continuous measurements of sensors by adjusting the salt content than by giving more or less water, scientist Bart Van de Wal explains.

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 prison in Belgian Ghent has been hit by the measles. The prisoners may not receive a visit and will be vaccinated, as well as the staff. From Tuesday, Tuesday, 21 people have fallen sick since Friday, the viral infection turns around.

Researchers at Ghent University have made a foal from an immature frozen egg thawed, ripened, fertilized and grown into an embryo. This was then planted in a carrying mare at the Animal Embryo Center Diergaerderhof in Maria-Hoop in Dutch Limburg. On May 12, the stallion VICSI was born, a world priest, announced the UGent Wednesday.

If people would eat more plant foods, it is not only good for health but also for the public finances. It not only reduces medical costs, but people can work longer. According to a research professor of health economics Lieven Anne Mansfield of the University of Ghent.

Belgium is cracking as punishable in the Netherlands. The four government parties on Wednesday an agreement signed here.

Turkish ex-Energy Minister Taner Yildiz tries Wednesday night in Brussels Belgian Turks to convince them next month to vote for Turkish constitution. Including the Netherlands and Germany seek to discourage such campaigns. In Germany, this week a speech Yildiz at the last minute canceled by the municipality where he wanted to speak.

A father may have one and a half years in jail as punishment because he has shaved the head of his 14-year-old daughter. The Ghent Chechen A. K. was angry because his teenage daughter came home late after going out and had consumed alcohol. The girl is traumatized because of this. She no longer lives at home.

Rail traffic around Antwerp lies flat on Thursday afternoon by a signal failure. And from the Netherlands, Ghent and Brussels are no trains, reports rail company SNCB.

The process surrounding the so-called castle murder in Belgium will still be handled by an ordinary court and not by a popular jury. The court in Ghent turned Friday decision of the chambers in Bruges dated November back.

The Belgian police on Sunday night shot an armed man in a house in East Flanders Melle. Presumably this was a burglar. The victim died from his injuries.

An airliner of Air France on its way to Amsterdam on the first day of the year over the Belgian city of Ghent nearly collided with an Egyptian cargo plane. Belgian media reported Saturday that the two devices together mainly by negligence of the Egyptian crew narrowly crossed at about 6 kilometers.