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Five police officers were wounded yesterday, with three of them requiring hospitalisation, following a routine traffic stop in Molenbeek.
Brussels has come in 26th on The Economist’s biennial Safe Cities Index.
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.
Federal interior minister Annelies Verlinden has said that a database of names of people no longer welcome at recreation parks in Belgium would be developed, following Ghent’s decision to draw up
Police have arrested a suspect in the death of a woman on the street in Evere on Sunday evening. The woman was stabbed while walking home with her six-week-old baby in a pram.
The trial of 81 defendants who are alleged to be members of a large criminal organisation, the so-called 'Modest clan', started in Brussels on Monday.
A Brussels court handed down a six-month prison sentence and a €1,600 fine to a man for incitement to racial hatred based on threatening comments made on social media.
Five men have been handed suspended sentences of between two-and-a-half and three years for luring gay men to a parking area in East Flanders in order to rob and humiliate them.
In contrast to the downward trend in other provinces, crime in Brussels train stations is on the rise.
