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Brussels police write up an average of two fines a day for verbal abuse, mostly targeted at women and gay people.
According to the latest crime figures, the City of Brussels is becoming safer.
Police have ruled out in principle a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Anderlecht, after a fire broke out there early on Tuesday morning.
After analysing more than 75,000 burglaries and attempted home invasions last year, the federal police have concluded that there are about 660 burglar gangs active in Belgium, reports Het Nieu
Thirty-five people from Afghanistan, including a man who later died, were discovered in a container at Tilbury Docks in the UK on Saturday.
The federal anti-terrorism agency OCAD has joined in an investigation of an oil leak at the nuclear power reactor Doel 4 in Beveren, East Flanders.
A 34-year-old Brussels woman was kidnapped 30 years ago from Guatemala and sold by her kidnapper to a Belgian couple for adoption, local police said.
Belgium and the Netherlands have for the first time agreed to exchange DNA data, leading to a possible breakthrough in hundreds of cases.
Mehdi Nemmouche, the French national accused of the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May, in which four people died, has been handed over to Belgian custody by French authorities.
