A 33-year-old Belgian from Zeebrugge has beaten his pregnant girlfriend to death and risks 10 years in prison. Although she had bruises and the apartment was full of blood spatter, he crept back into bed after the act, without alarm.
Energy company Engie Electrabel is looking for floating power stations that can support the Belgian main electricity grid in the ports of Antwerp, Zeebrugge and Ostend. Such 'electricity ships' are normally anchored at developing countries, but the Belgians now need them to survive the winter.
In the night from Monday to Tuesday, the Belgian police arrested more than sixty illegal immigrants. With approximately 150 agents, the police controlled all access roads to the port of Zeebrugge and, moreover, the French border in the province of West Flanders. The campaign focused on trucks \u0026 vans.
Additional safety measures should make it more difficult for migrants to climb on board trucks. Belgium is full of problems along the E40 highway towards the coast and hopes that people smugglers will be moved by firmer action.
Asylum seekers have found a new smart trick to come to England.
For the Belgian coast a eyebrow batros has been photographed. A rare observation, because this species of birds is predominantly on the Falkland Islands and in Chile.
For the Belgian North Sea coast around Ostend is the last day for millions discovered cocaine in floating bags. The first case was reported last weekend in Ostend but in the meantime, according to Belgian media for 25 sports bags with hard drug found that sometimes fastened together with tape floating in the water.
In Belgium Monday disaster commemorated with the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise. The ferry capsized thirty years ago, shortly after leaving the Belgian coastal city of Zeebrugge for what should have been a routine trip to Dover. Of the approximately 550 people on board came 193 killed, mostly British.
On the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in the weekend 800 kilos of cocaine were found in a container. The cargo was en route from a South American country to a major European port, French media reported Monday.
By the capsizing of a Belgian fishing vessel off the British coast is one of the passengers to come and there is a missing life. A third crew member could be removed from the hull, Belgian media said Wednesday.
A Dutch citizen of Syrian origin, was sentenced Wednesday by a court in Bruges because of smuggling to imprisonment for three years, half of probation. According to the court in the Belgian city wanted the 32-year-old J. Ghadi get even minor Syrian with a false Greek identity to England.
Twelve refugees were rescued Wednesday in Zeebrugge from certain death. The men were found in a truck where they have at least six hours at minus 25 degrees to a load of frozen bread layers. The truck would continue until Friday at the quay and then shipped to Norway.
"The Belgian police on Monday sixteen refugees, including a pregnant woman and three children, taken from a refrigerator. They were among a load of yogurt and cake at 2 degrees in a closed truck outside the port of Zeebrugge."
A British couple has six people tried Sunday undocumented migrants in their home to get across the Channel. Sunday the two were caught red-handed when they wanted to embark in Zeebrugge to take the ferry to Hull, the prosecution said in Bruges Monday.
In the port of Zeebrugge, the maritime police Tuesday released seven Iranians from a container. The refugees called the police himself because they had insufficient air, the prosecution states in Bruges.
The salvage of the sunken Dutch freighter Flinterstar progressing well for the Belgian coast. The front part of the ship has been removed from the sea.
Discovered in a shipping container at the Port of the Belgian Zeebrugge Tuesday morning fifteen refugees from Eritrea. The stowaways had become distressed and panicked and struck a telephone alarm.
Belgium screw back the systematic controls at the French border. There will be still focused, mobile controls.
Belgium extends the border controls which it has set up to stop migrants from France ten days. The checks were brought to shore on February 23 after a French judge had determined that the refugee camp had to be broken in Calais.
In Belgium have been arrested in the first sixteen traffickers two months of this year. This appears Tuesday to figures from the prosecutor's office in Bruges. Throughout 2015 there were 41.
Belgium is stricter control its border to De Panne because of the evacuation of the refugee camp in the French Calais. Brussels fears that migrants have to go there, look for refuge in Belgium.
In the Belgian port of Zeebrugge four Iraqis were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking. According to police, they were busy with the loading of a ship, which were found near fifteen refugees of various nationalities.
