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A 40-year-old woman from Dongen, Brabant, was sentenced to 1.5 years in Belgium for stealing copper drain pipes from eighteen churches in Belgian Limburg. The court in Tongeren...

A peaceful Christmas thought, there is a seller on the antique market in the Belgian Tongeren lacquer. At one of the stalls, Christmas balls and peaks with Nazi symbols were offered. A Dutch woman who roamed the market came across the controversial Christmas decoration and shared photos on Twitter. It is not known who managed the stand.

A Dutch citizen has been sentenced by the court in Tongeren to ten years in prison in Belgium for his role in a violent robbery against his former in-laws in 2015.

Approximately 250 people on Saturday afternoon in Belgium filed a declaration against the Belgian state, the operator of the Belgian nuclear power plants and the Belgian nuclear watchdog FANC. Among them a number of people from Limburg.

The Belgian Renaud Hardy was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of two women he had raped and tortured, and murder attempts on two other women. A folk jury had already convicted the 55-year-old man from Mechelen on Wednesday evening at the Assisenhof in Tongeren. The punishment followed a day later.

A number of parties in Parliament has reservations about the 'hackwet' that the police and judiciary in the future may hacking devices to investigate serious crimes. D66 MP Kees Verhoeven warned Tuesday particular that the police can use the manufacturer unknown vulnerabilities in software, to enter.

The Belgian police and customs on Wednesday rolled a criminal organization with branches in the Netherlands. The gang would have every year for tens of millions of euro fraud by not paying VAT and excise duty payable on tobacco and alcohol.

The Amsterdam Robert K. Friday in Tongeren sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his landlord, Mathieu Henkens, in 2013. A jury had sixty Thursday found guilty of murdering 29 stab wounds and multiple hammer blows on the 54-year-old Henkens in Neeroeteren (Maaseik).

In Belgian Limburg past Easter weekend, the federal police a batch of around 1,500 kilos of cocaine seized. This is the biggest catch ever in the province, the prosecution said in Tongeren Thursday.

In the court of the Belgian Tongeren surfaced Tuesday five grenades in a box confiscated guns, knives and daggers. In one grenade was according to a Registry employee still inflammation spin. The room where the box was was evacuated and explosives experts dismantled the grenades and removed.

It took a while for the Belgian police speed demon in the town of Tongeren had to tackle. When asked why he was traveling at 120 kilometers per hour, the driver pointed to the burger next to him in the vehicle. He was afraid that it would be cold. The man had bought the snack called in Hoeselt and wanted to at least be able to eat warm home . The distance between Tongeren and Hoeselt is a little over 10 kilometers.