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A pickpocket lifts a wallet from an unsuspecting victim (Google images)
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Police officers specialised in arresting pickpockets in the Brussels-Ixelles area made 304 arrests in 2021.

Panoramic view with windmill and white horse" of Pieter Brueghel the alder which was stolen of the national museum of Dresden in 1942, presented in the Antwerp fine arts museum. (BELGA PHOTO WIM HENDRIX)
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Since 1 January 2022, the unit of the federal judicial police specialising in the fight against the trafficking in cultural property is no longer active, following a decision from interior ministe

This screenshot taken from a video and distributed on Saturday 15 January 2022, shows a 55-year-old woman victim of a push incident on Friday 14 January 2022, by a 23-year-old French man, at Metro station Rogier, in the city centre of Brussels, Saturday 15 January 2022. (BELGA PHOTO STRINGER)
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‎Some 1,600 Stib workers have signed an online petition calling on the management of the transport company to show leniency towards the employee who filmed the surveillance camera footage showing

Illustration shows the city hall of the Anderlecht municipality. (BELGA PHOTO THIERRY ROGE)
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The town council of Anderlecht has dismissed four members of the municipal administration for their participation in a driving licence fraud, according to a statement from the Brussels commune.

Special forces pictured on the scene of a police raid in Brussels. (BELGA PHOTO LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ)
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Another operation against a criminal organisation dealing with the large-scale import of cocaine in Belgium took place on Tuesday.

LEUVEN, BELGIUM: Illustration picture shows a bike lock, on Monday 06 January 2014 in Leuven. (BELGA PHOTO SISKA GREMMELPREZ)
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Every day around 230 bicycles are reported stolen in Belgium. The actual figure is likely to be even higher as police believe that many thefts go unreported.

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Five police officers were wounded yesterday, with three of them requiring hospitalisation, following a routine traffic stop in Molenbeek.

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Brussels has come in 26th on The Economist’s biennial Safe Cities Index.

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Following the release of the original suspect arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a woman in Evere, a second suspect has been arrested.

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