Belgium's training mission Mali lead
brussels February 5, 2016 13:42Belgium takes the lead in July of European training mission of the Malian army in Germany. The number of Belgian soldiers will be more than doubled to 175.
Belgium takes the lead in July of European training mission of the Malian army in Germany. The number of Belgian soldiers will be more than doubled to 175.
French taxi drivers on Friday blocked the highway to Charles de Gaulle Airport. Reported that the airport on its website. The so-called self-employed drivers are angry about new government requirements that would make their work difficult.
The woman who tipped off the police about the whereabouts of the mastermind behind the attacks in Paris, says that who claimed that he had come to Europe with a group of ninety extremists. He planned to commit new attacks when police found his hideout. That said the wife, Sonia, in an interview with the French station RMC and BFM television.
Police in and around Brussels gets more powers and manpower. There are 218 agents with which to counter the threat of terrorism and radicalization of Muslims in the Belgian capital.
Human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International warn again Thursday for human rights violations as a result of the state of emergency in France. According to the organizations, the police abused its new powers more and more.
The Belgian king Filip Wednesday visited the Brussels municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. Some of the terrorists involved in the attacks in Paris had a bond with this town or lived there.
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.
The 28-year-old man last week was arrested in a hotel at Disneyland Paris with two firearms, on Tuesday received a prison sentence of six months. Which he may spend in the house of his mother. Besides electronic house arrest the man got nine months probation.
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.
Salah Abdeslam, key fugitive suspect in the bombings in Paris, probably is not in Belgium. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has therefore at least,, no indication, 'he said Monday at the French radio station Europe 1.
In several cities in France people have taken to the streets to protest against the planned extension of the state of emergency in the country. Several human rights organizations and the union of judges had called for the demonstrations. The protest is in addition to extending the state of emergency also on the plan to convicted terrorists take away French citizenship.
The woman who disappeared Thursday when the man she accompanied at Disneyland was arrested with two firearms, was arrested.
The man was arrested Thursday in a hotel near Disneyland Paris amusement park because he had joined two firearms, is not being associated with terrorism. That has a French police source in the night from Thursday said on Friday, according to the BBC. The 28-year-old man said he feared for his safety and therefore was armed. Were also ammunition and a Koran in his luggage.
A cousin and accomplice of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who is suspected to have played a key role thereof in the attacks of 13 November in Paris, buried in Morocco. The French prosecutor on Thursday given permission to transfer the remains of Hasna Aït Boulahcen family for a funeral in Morocco, reported the family lawyer, Fabien Ndoumou.
A man pointing to all appearances would assassinate Disneyland Paris, for he could proceed with his action stopped by hotel security guards.
After his visit to Rome Iranian President Hassan Rohani on Wednesday for political and economic talks arrived in Paris. In the evening he meets Minister of Economic Affairs Emmanuel Macron and a delegation of French businessmen.
French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira get on. The office of President Francois Hollande made her resignation Wednesday. Taubira can not agree with the plans of the government to convicted terrorists with dual nationality to take away their French citizenship.
Police in Paris on Tuesday cleared five high schools because of bomb scares. The schools were told by phone that would explode bombs in the morning, according to the education authorities in Paris. No explosives were found until early Tuesday afternoon.
The Belgian security services knew of the 2012 terror cell who committed attacks in November last year in Paris. In April 2012 conversations were tapped in an apartment in the district of Molenbeek, which spoke of attacks against Western democracy and ways to get weapons and explosives, reported the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws and De Morgen Tuesday.
Belgian diplomats must do everything to improve the tarnished image of Belgium in other countries. Prime Minister Charles Michel called on the diplomatic corps here Monday supervise. He will also do it yourself with a number of foreign visits.
In France last year certainly foiled eleven attacks, which were similar to the attacks in Paris on 13 November. The Minister of Internal Affairs Bernard Cazeneuve Sunday told television channel France 5.,, In one case an attack on a concert was being prepared in an event hall. Others threatened with deadly attacks on French roads and cities, '' said Cazeneuve.
In a Sunday by Islamic State (ISIS) published video claimed the terror group images and the latest statements from nine people who took part in the attacks in Paris, where in November, 130 people were killed, show. Whether it be authentic images, is still unclear.
The German Nils D. (25) turns out to have been a member of the secret police of Islamic state in Syria. In the coming weeks he stands up in Düsseldorf alleging membership in the terrorist organization.
France, the state of emergency currently in the country by force if necessary persevere until Islamic State is defeated. That Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Davos against the BBC said. Valls lives in the Swiss town of the World Economic Forum in.
One of the suspects of involvement in the attacks of Paris is on the loose. That has a court in Brussels Friday determined.
The French language deteriorates by the qwerty keyboard. That is the Minister of Culture in the heart so that it has commissioned a new design.
The Belgian police on Wednesday and Thursday in Molenbeek in connection with the investigation into the attacks in Paris arrested two men. That the federal prosecutor in Brussels on Thursday.
America will do for the time being no more stringent security for Syrian refugees. A majority in the Senate appeared Wednesday to introduce a law that makes that possible.
The United States has all 26 countries participating in the coalition against terror group Islamic State (ISIS) called to carry summit soon in Brussels. Ministers of Defense Ashton Carter wants his counterparts consult on,, further contributions to the fight, '' he said Wednesday after a meeting on the same subject in Paris.
France had last year a record number of four hundred attacks on Muslims. After the deadly attack on the editorial board of the magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January, tripled the number of cases of aggression against Muslims. That the French Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told the Catholic newspaper La Croix.