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A man wielding a knife was arrested in Brussels on Monday morning in front of the official residence of the prime minister, reports RTBF.
Belgian federal prosecutors have been spent four years investigating messaging app Telegram - an investigation that until now was not public knowledge.
Almost 700 inmates in Belgium are currently on extended prison leave due to overcrowding, according to a new internal study released by the prison administration.
A senior civil servant in Namur province is in pre-trial detention, suspected of embezzling almost €1.9 million in public funds over several years.
Two cold cases of unidentified women in Belgium, believed to have been the victims of murder, have been added to a Europe-wide project, Operation Identify Me.
A new law now allows defendants charged with a crime to submit a guilty plea in Belgian courts, potentially avoiding lengthy trails while helping clear a backlog of cases.
An average of 13 thefts a day have been recorded in Brussels’ pedestrian zone so far this year, including a television camera belonging to the broadcaster RTBF.
Six people have been arrested and more than 110 weapons were seized in a major investigation into a criminal organisation involved in arms trafficking, the Brussels federal police has announced.
The mayors of Anderlecht and Saint-Gilles have written an open letter to Belgian railway operator SNCB’s chief executive Sophie Dutordoir about the problems in the neighbourhood around Brussels-Mi