The Belgian government announced on Friday that Saudi Arabia is not the official manager of the great mosque of Brussels anymore, reports Belga. The step was taken to implement a recommendation submitted by the parliamentary inquiry committee on terrorist attacks, intending to «put an end to the interference of foreign states in the teaching of Islam in Belgium», said the same source. A one-year period was given to plan the new structure, to which the Muslim Executive of
A Belgian judge refused the extradition of a Belgian resident sentenced for terrorism to Morocco over «fears of being tortured», said on Friday La Libre. Bilal, who visited Syria in September 2015, was arrested months later in Brussels and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He had links with the terrorist cell of Khalid Zerkani, described by the Belgian media as the most famous jihadist recruiter in Belgium. Released in June 2017, the Belgian Immigration Office was intending to
Eli Hadzhieva, a lawyer and founder of Dialogue for Europe believes that excluding the Sahara from the fisheries agreement concluded between and Morocco and the EU would jeopardize the stability of the union, including Catalonia and Wallonia in Spain.
The Dutch-born Moroccan footballer, Ismail H’Maidat has been behind bars since March the 13th, according to the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, quoted by So Foot magazine. The international player is suspected of having participated in five armed robberies near Turnhout (Belgium). The events took place on New Year’s Eve and on January the 6th, said Sud Info. For now, he is the only one that got arrested. The police are still investigating whether other accomplices are
The Belgian federal government is finally implementing the recommendations set by a parliamentary inquiry committee on terrorist attacks. According to Echo, a Belgian online newspaper, «the government will formally agree, this week, to the suspension of the lease that allows Saudi Arabia to manage the Grand Mosque of Brussels». Thus, a one year notice was given to Saudi Arabia to give up control of the Mosque after 49 years. In fact, Belgium leased the Grand Mosque to Riyadh in
Accused of being invovled in the November 13 attacks in Paris and the March 22 ones in Brussels, Mohamed Abrini and Ossama Krayem were remanded in custody for another two months, said Friday the Brussels Federal Prosecutor's Office to the Belga press agency. Mohamed Abrini was arrested on April 8, 2016. He was the man wearing a hat, spotted through a Closed-circuit television, in addition to two kamikazes in the Brussels Airport. On March 22, 2016, he dropped an explosives bag at the
Around 3,000 Moroccan nationals from the Rif region took the streets in Brussels on Wednesday to demand the release of political prisoners in their country, reports Dutch-language Belgian platform VRT NWS. The protesters came from different European countries. Ahmed Zefzafi, the father of the figurehead of the Hirak protest movement, Nasser Zefzafi, also took part in the rally. The aim of the event was to draw the attention of the European Parliament to Moroccan political prisoners, says VRT
The Court of Justice of the European Union decided on Tuesday that the Fisheries agreement is valid but not applicable to Western Sahara. A decision that comes as the Polisario is commemorating the creation of «Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic».
The Court of Justice and the European Union issued on Tuesday, 27th of February, the ruling regarding the fisheries agreement put into force since 2014. In its judgment, the European the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law concluded that «the 'Moroccan fishing zone' under the Protocol does not include the waters adjacent to the territory of Western Sahara». In a communiqué made public on the same day, the CJEU stated that «neither the
Mohamed Abdeslam, the brother of Salah Abdeslam, was arrested this weekend, reports Belga news agency. He is suspected of stealing 70,000 euros, transported to a bank on the 23th of January in Molenbeek. On Saturday, the Brussels' prosecutor confirmed the arrest of four suspects, detained Thursday. They appeared before the investigating judge Friday. Two of the arrestees were placed under an arrest warrant, including Mohamed Abdeslam. They are accused of being involved in an «armed