Belgium News

January 22, 2020

‘Greetings from Thailand’: Belgian fugitive taunts jailers

An escaped Belgian prisoner taunted his former jailers by returning his prison badge with a cheery holiday message, purportedly from Thailand. Oualid Sekkaki had sent a postcard bearing the message “Greetings from Thailand”, a source speaking on condition of anonymity…
January 20, 2020

Belgium region ‘totally opposes’ Mercosur trade pact

Belgium’s southern Wallonia region, which briefly blocked an EU-Canada trade deal in 2016, said Monday it was “totally opposed” to Europe’s new trade pact negotiated with South America’s Mercosur grouping. The head of government for the French-speaking region, Elio Di…
January 20, 2020

High hopes as Austria’s new night train sets off for Brussels

The first night train to set off for Belgium in 16 years departed from Vienna Sunday, carrying Austrian and European politicians who hope the new route can set an example as the continent tries to meet its climate targets. The…
January 18, 2020

Extinction Rebellion protest disrupts Brussels Motor Show

Police in Brussels said they arrested around 150 people at the Brussels Motor Show on Saturday after Extinction Rebellion campaigners smeared cars with fake blood and staged die-ins around the displays. The activists would be released once they had given…
January 17, 2020

Rabat kept Belgian-Moroccan for years in ‘abusive solitary’: HRW

Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Morocco of holding a dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen in “inhuman” and “abusive solitary detention” for more than three years following his 2009 life sentence on terrorism charges. Abdelkader Belliraj was the alleged mastermind of a…
January 16, 2020

Peruvian police arrest Belgian with 20 wild birds in suitcase

Peruvian police have arrested a Belgian man at Lima Airport for trying to smuggle 20 live birds to Europe in his suitcase, the National Forest and Wildlife Service said Wednesday. Hugo Conings was arrested at the airport on Monday “for…
January 14, 2020

Three doctors on trial in Belgium euthanasia case

Three doctors went on trial Tueday in Belgium accused of not respecting the conditions for euthanasia, a first in a country that legalised assisted suicide nearly two decades ago. The three could be imprisoned for life if found guilty in…
January 10, 2020

Belgian bus driver stabbed 10 times, continues route

A Belgian bus driver was stabbed 10 times, receiving wounds to the neck and stomach, but continued to follow his route for another hour, officials said Friday. According to the prosecutor’s office in Antwerp, on Thursday the driver found himself…
January 9, 2020

Belgium probes alleged killing in right-wing cult

Belgian authorities have opened an investigation into the 2011 death of a member of a cult led by the manager of a girl band with links to the French far right. On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the the state prosecutor…

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