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Belgian federal prosecutors have been spent four years investigating messaging app Telegram - an investigation that until now was not public knowledge.
Almost 700 inmates in Belgium are currently on extended prison leave due to overcrowding, according to a new internal study released by the prison administration.
A senior civil servant in Namur province is in pre-trial detention, suspected of embezzling almost €1.9 million in public funds over several years.
Two cold cases of unidentified women in Belgium, believed to have been the victims of murder, have been added to a Europe-wide project, Operation Identify Me.
A new law now allows defendants charged with a crime to submit a guilty plea in Belgian courts, potentially avoiding lengthy trails while helping clear a backlog of cases.
An average of 13 thefts a day have been recorded in Brussels’ pedestrian zone so far this year, including a television camera belonging to the broadcaster RTBF.
Six people have been arrested and more than 110 weapons were seized in a major investigation into a criminal organisation involved in arms trafficking, the Brussels federal police has announced.
The mayors of Anderlecht and Saint-Gilles have written an open letter to Belgian railway operator SNCB’s chief executive Sophie Dutordoir about the problems in the neighbourhood around Brussels-Mi
Police made 333 arrests in the vicinity of Brussels-North station during July and August, including 159 administrative arrests and 174 judicial arrests for various crimes.
