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The capital’s six police zones teamed up to ensure safety on New Year’s Eve, with one chief constable leading the forces of the different police zones.
A prisoner was murdered by another inmate in the prison of Saint-Gilles yesterday.
Michel Lelièvre, an accomplice of Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux, has been released from prison. Lelièvre will serve the final two years of his 25-year sentence outside of the prison.
The building in Bilzen that was damaged by arson fire early last week will still become an asylum centre, according to federal migration secretary Maggie De Block (Open VLD).
The fire department was held up on its way to a call in Schaerbeek at the weekend because of illegally parked cars.
A pair of tree thieves were caught red-handed trying to make away with €5,000 worth of wood in the Sonian Forest.
Witnesses who walked past a dying man in Kortrijk’s Grote Markt last week are being questioned by police.
A 36-year-old resident of Koekelberg, Brussels, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for throwing his three-month-old baby to the ground.
A local chapter of the international human rights organisation Amnesty International has renamed the avenue Franklin Roosevelt into the avenue Jamal Khashoggi.
