Celebrations in Brussels, Belgium to mark the qualification of Morocco national football team for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia turned violent. Fans clashed with policemen in the city center the police told the Belga press agency, reports AFP. Riot police fired water cannons to control a crowd of about 300 people. Several cars were burned and stores were looted, according to the Belgian police, who announced that 22 policemen were injured. Agression inacceptable ds centre BXL. Le
The mayor of Molenbeek-ST-Jean, Francoise Schepmans, banned the holding of an Islamophobic rally scheduled for Friday 3rd of November in one of the 19 municipalities in the Brussels-Capital region, reports L’Express. «Any gathering of people that has to do with this rally will be prohibited by the municipality of Molenbeek-St-Jean», stated the mayor. The rally has been announced weeks before by several far-right elected representatives, namely Filip Dewinter, a member
Five Belgian nationals originally from the Maghreb region have filed a complaint against X. They have joined as a civil party to the investigation for being treated in an inhuman and degrading way. An action that follows their imprisonment in Turkey for almost a week, in September, while they were on a holiday in the seaside resort of Bodrum, according to the RTBF. The complaint was lodged in Brussels following their holidays that ended sadly «on suspicions of being a
The trial of Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the 13th November Paris attacks, will take place between the 18th and 22nd of December in Brussels. The French-Moroccan detainee «might be transported by a helicopter daily» to attend his trial, as reported by L’Express. The daily hearings will be about Salah Abdeslam’s appearance in Forest following the shooting that took place on the 15th of March 2016, three days before his arrest. On the other hand, the Prisons
The Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders was questioned at the Belgian Federal Parliament following a statement made by the Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Theo Francken on human rights in Morocco. In a question addressed to Didier Reynders, Belgian MP Gwenaëlle Grovonius stressed that the declaration of Theo Francken «is not the first controversial statement he makes against Morocco and its nationals that add value to the Belgian society». She argued saying
Mohamed El Bachiri, a Moroccan-Belgian national, has just announced the release of the French version of «A Jihad of Love». In his book, available in Dutch, English and French, the husband of Loubna Lafquiri, one of the victims that were killed amid the Brussles bombings in March 2016, Mohamed El Bachiri describes how losing his wife felt like while sending a message of love to the world. Interview.
The Moroccan Embassy in Brussels denounced strongly the remarks made by the Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Theo Francken, who told Belgian media in an interview conducted on Saturday that Morocco is «among the countries where human rights are not respected». «The Embassy of Morocco in Belgium expresses its deep protest and deep indignation following the statements made by the Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Mr. Theo Francken»,
On September the 21st, Elio Di Rupo, the president of the Socialist Party announced the appointment of Ahmed Laaouej as the group's leader at the Chamber of Representatives in the Belgian Federal Parliament. An achievement for the Belgian politician of Moroccan descent and the Rifian who is attached to his origins. Portrait.
The internet is a means of communication for terrorists, which help them recruit, and arrange attacks using coded messages that the intelligence services cannot decode. For that reason, Morocco and three countries from the European Union, namely Spain, France and Belgium met in Mechelen to discuss this problem.
The new EU-Moroccan trade negotiations have been targeted by a group of MEPs and the Polisario Front. Both believe that these talks would be in conflict with the CJEU’s verdict pronounced on the 21st of December 2016. The Front even called for the organization of a separate agreement with the EU.