Education In secondary education, around 300 children also end up on a waiting list for special education in Antwerp. The lack of space increases to 1,000 children. The situation in the B stream is equally serious. After the report that there is no room for 700 children in special primary education in Antwerp, it becomes … Read more
Justice In a murder investigation from 1999, the council chamber in Antwerp confirmed the arrest of a 51-year-old man on Monday. He is suspected of the murder of a seventeen-year-old Romanian in Antwerp. On the night of May 16, 1999, the body of a seventeen-year-old Romanian woman was found in Dries Street in Antwerp. She … Read more
football After two years, Dutch success coach Mark van Bommel leaves Antwerp FC. This is reported by Gazet van Antwerpen. Van Bommel was appointed as trainer of Antwerp in mid-2022, just months after Marc Overmars started working at the club as technical director. The now 47-year-old head coach had an incredible first year in Belgium. … Read more
Storm Thursday evening’s thunderstorm flooded streets and caused damage, especially in Limburg and Antwerp. A record amount of rain fell in Lanaken and in Meerle (Hoogstraten) a house was declared uninhabitable after a lightning strike. In Lanaken, Limburg, no less than 88 liters of water per square meter fell in one hour, between 7 p.m. … Read more
At around 7:30 this morning, the emergency services received a report of an explosion in Antwerp’s Gounodstraat, in the city center. “The initial findings show that a fire bomb was thrown at the front door of a house,” said Kim Bastiaens, spokesperson for the Antwerp police. “There is damage to the front door of an … Read more
Antwerp The Antwerp police have found one hundred kilograms of cocaine in an apartment near the Boekenbergpark in Deurne-Zuid. A 16-year-old who was guarding the cocaine has been arrested. The East neighborhood team of the Antwerp police zone conducted anonymous surveillance near the Boekenberg Park on Saturday evening because there was regular nuisance due to … Read more
A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured in a stabbing in the Lange Klarenstraat, a side street of the Meir, on Saturday night. He is out of danger. The victim is said to have been present at a party where he was not welcome. There was a conflict with some other attendees and the Antwerp teenager … Read more
low emission zone The city of Antwerp is getting a boost from foreign drivers with an electric car. Many of them receive a fine if they enter the low-emission zone (LEZ), even if their vehicle does not emit any harmful substances. The city is looking to AI to solve that problem, recognizing vehicles instead of … Read more
reportage city poets The benefit auction took place at the Bernaerts auction house. — © Sebastian Steveniers A benefietauction with special objects from twenty years of Antwerp’s city poetry raised 6,860 euros. “For full-fledged urban poetry, resources of a different order of magnitude are needed.” To financially support the city poetship, the Antwerp city poets, … Read more
Crime Juvenile judges in Antwerp will soon be able to impose an ankle bracelet on young delinquents. The Flemish government has decided that. The pilot project will be rolled out across Flanders after a year if there is a positive evaluation. In the coming months, the judges of the Antwerp youth court will be able … Read more