Calculated on the day on which the attacks at the airport in Zaventem were commemorated three years ago, at the end of the morning on Friday a part of the roof of a building under construction...
The security at Zaventem airport is as leaky as a basket. A 'mystery passenger' recently succeeded in passing all safety checks with a bomb belt.
A woman from Greece died during a flight from Athens to Zaventem. According to the Belgian public prosecutor's office, this is a 45-year-old woman who was on her way to Brussels with her husband.
An Airbus A330-200 from Brussels Airlines had double engine trouble earlier this month. On a flight from Kinshasa to Brussels first the left engine fell out and later also the judge. In both…
The strike at baggage handler Aviapartner at Zaventem airport near Brussels continues on Sunday. Hours of negotiations between the management and trade unions have not led to a breakthrough. The parties continue on Sunday.
A hairdresser from the Belgian town of Zaventem who showered a woman with petrol and threatened to set her on fire was arrested. The 34-year-old Vanessa E. was convinced that the woman had stolen 7,000 euros from her.
A Tunisian companion of the terrorist Salah Abdeslam is officially suspected of participating in the terror cell that committed the attacks in Brussels in March 2016. The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium says that 24-year-old Sofien Ayari has been indicted. Abdeslam may wait for the same fate.
How could this happen? More than two years after the horrendous attacks in Brussels and at Zaventem airport, Belgium is desperately wondering whether Islamic terrorism has once again hit Belgian soil.
The Brussels District Court acquitted eighteen of the nineteen suspects of the diamond robbery at Zaventem airport in early 2013 because of lack of evidence. In the robbery, the perpetrators took out 37 million euros worth of diamonds from a plane belonging to a Swiss airline.
The Belgian police have distributed nearly a hundred coupons to campaigning taxi drivers. The angry drivers received an official report on or around the Brussels ring road because they maliciously interfered with traffic and for other violations, according to Minister of Internal Affairs Jan Jambon.
In Brussels, a traffic chaos threatens Tuesday due to the actions of the taxi sector. The police advises motorists to leave their car at home.
Survivors of the terrorist attack at Zaventem airport are deeply disappointed about the course of the commemoration this morning. At 7.58 am, exactly two years after the attack, a minute of silence would be held.
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The lawsuit about the high-profile diamond robbery at Brussels Airport in 2013 will start on Wednesday. In the raid in Zaventem by at least eight armed and masked men, the perpetrators went off with 37 million of diamonds from a Swiss airline.
Angeline Flor Pua, who was named Miss Belgium 2018 on Saturday, received a huge wave of racist reactions to her victory last weekend. The 22-year-old woman from Antwerp with Filipino roots reacts strongly today: 'This is not going to stop me from becoming a good Miss Belgium.'
The outbreak of a do-it-yourself case in Brussels where terrorists bought material to make explosives is officially suspected of terrorism. The 39-year-old Belg Brahim T. is suspected of participating in a terrorist organization and terrorist murders as a perpetrator or accomplice, told the federal parquet.
A Danish woman in a nikab was denied access to Belgium on Wednesday because she did not show her face at a border inspection at Zaventem airport. That's what Theo Francken, State Secretary for Asylum and Migration, announced on Friday. In Belgium, it has been forbidden to wear a nikab since 2011.
The luggage lorries and loaders at Brussels airport resumed work Wednesday morning. The airport also expects delays and disturbances when handling the luggage. Cancellations are not excluded. Travelers are advised not to take a carry-on baggage.
Travelers who fly from Brussels airport must take into account inconvenience due to a strike. Employees of luggage dealer Swissport have spontaneously resigned, partly because of their excessive workload.
The suspected attack on Tuesday in Brussels only exploded and ignited the actual bomb. That reported the Belgian VTM News.
The Belgian airport Zaventem is suffering from a power strike on Thursday morning. That reports local media. On Twitter, different people say they can not handle the building or their plane.
The Belgian customs arrested a 48-year-old man who wanted to fly to Istanbul with nine gold bars in his hand luggage. In addition to the approximately 16 kilos of gold, the Flemish also had almost 126,000 euros of cash.
A 30-year-old Belgian was detained in Brussels on Friday for his 'leading role' at the attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015. Yassine A. is suspected of 'terrorist murders' and 'participating in the activities of a terrorist group as leader' Reports the Belgian Public Prosecution Service on Friday. At the attacks, 130 killed.
The Belgian liaison officer to the terrorist Ibrahim El Bakraoui were expanded by Turkey in July 2015 to the Netherlands will no disciplinary proceedings on his pants. The Belgian Moroccan blew himself up at Zaventem airport on March 22, 2016.
The deployment of 1,250 soldiers in the streets of Brussels in particular and other cities will be extended by one month. The Belgian government announced Friday. Threat Level 3, on a scale of 4, is maintained, so it was decided after a new threat analysis on 21 March.
The Belgian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders, is ' shocked by the terrorist attack that resulted today in London for much human suffering. 'He writes dispersed in a statement Wednesday. ' Our country is in solidarity with the British. '
'You have responded with dignity and magnificent resilience on terror. Nobody can understand what you went through. You are an example to us all. '
With a minute of silence at the Belgian national airport Wednesday morning began the commemoration of the attacks in Brussels a year ago. This happened at 7:58 am, the time when two suicide bombers on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 blew up in the departure hall.
In Brussels Wednesday commemorated the victims of the attacks exactly one year ago. Not only at the official commemoration ceremonies, but also stopped on public transport, schools and many other places in the events of 22 March 2016. In addition to the three suicide bombers were also 32 civilians. There were more than 300 injured.
Brussels licking a year after the terrorist attacks of March 22, 2016 are still wounds. Victims and survivors complain about the lack of financial and practical follow-up since three suicide bombers Tuesday morning seventeen fifteen Belgians and foreigners drove into the death. Brussels scrambles with difficulty from the downturn after tourists flocking the city avoided last year. Soldiers are not always disappeared from the scene and recall the persistent threat of terrorism.
