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In the first eight months of this year, there has not been a single successful escape from a Belgian prison. The last escape in the country was 18 months ago.
The trial of the Aquino drugs syndicate resumed in Hasselt on Monday with a motion to adjourn to a later date, following the death of one of the gang’s alleged leaders, Silvio Aquino, who wa
Cyber-crime is costing companies in Belgium as much as €3.5 billion every year, according to a study by management consultants KPMG Advisory.
The mother of the baby found abandoned by the side of the road by a bus driver in Sint-Truiden last month has turned herself in to the police.
Silvio Aquino, one of the brothers at the head of what is alleged to be one of the country’s biggest crime families, was shot dead on Thursday on an industrial estate in Opglabbeek, Limburg, days
Federal police officers carried out searches in Molenbeek, Brussels, on Monday at the home of the sister of Thalys gunman Ayoub El Khazzani, as well as a man said to be her friend.
Anyone who lived in Belgium in the 1980s knows about Les tueries du Brabant, a case known in English as the Brabant Killers.
The IS jihadist militant group is threatening attacks against targets in Belgium.
Brussels police have beefed up the fight against illegal drugs this spring and summer, with targeted raids and arrests in the Marolles neighbourhood and the Boulevard du Midi.
