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There were 76 reports made of the Brussels police using excessive force during the coronavirus lockdown.
Retail outlets were taken by surprise today at the number of enthusiastic customers who showed up this morning.
Four Brussels police officers are under investigation by the public prosecutor for the use of excessive violence against a man near Place Annessens on Tuesday night.
Could your day get worse? You’ve just stolen a bike from where it was parked at train station. It was a piece of cake because you used a grinding wheel – which you had also stolen.
Police arrested around 100 people over the weekend following protests in Anderlecht provoked by the death of a 19-year-old man, report local media.
They gave everyone a couple of days to get used to the idea, and now the Brussels-Ixelles police zone is handing out fines to people in groups of three or more.
While police across Belgium have been patient during the first couple of days of the government’s second round of measures to control the spread of the coronavirus, they won’t be for long.
Brussels trip-hop singer JoBee has filed a police report against an Uber driver who played an elaborate ‘joke’ on her that included the threat of being infected with the coronavirus.
More than a thousand protests took place in the capital last year – a historic first.
