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A pickpocket in Ixelles was left with a fractured skull after trying to steal from a three-time world boxing champion.
During the first weekend of the Tomorrowland festival, 24 drug dealers were caught, three of whom were detained.
Belgian police have reinforced their presence around Brussels Midi station after a spate of crimes against passengers, from pickpocketing to violent muggings.
Following a day in which another pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Brussels, Belgian road safety agency Vias has released figures showing the rate of the crime is indeed growing.
Homeowners with CCTV cameras outside their property have been warned to declare them now - or face a potentially hefty fine from next year.
Three quarters of people in Belgium say they feel almost always safe in their neighbourhood, according to a major survey by federal police into the public's perception of crime.
A hit-and-run driver who killed a woman on a pedestrian crossing in Schaerbeek has been ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service - a sentence that campaigners say is "unbearably lenient
Some 50 residents of Schaerbeek took to the streets in a wholly different way for a protest this morning. They didn’t march but lay on the ground.
The City of Brussels is facing a potential claim for "substantial damages" for wrongful dismissal, after a court cleared eight staff of stealing €127,000 of public money.
