Fire brigade The Brussels fire brigade was called on Sunday morning to a fire on the sixth floor of an apartment building on Helihavenlaan. The fire is now under control. Four flats are uninhabitable and one resident was taken to hospital. “Twenty people were evacuated from the building,” said fire brigade spokesman Walter Derieuw. “They … Read more
The Brussels North police zone was called around 12:30 am to reports of shots fired on Lehonplein in Schaerbeek. Emergency services found a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound. “A second victim was found shortly afterwards in De Potterstraat. The life of one of the victims is in danger,” said spokeswoman Audrey … Read more
Justice The Public Prosecutor of Brussels, Tim De Wolf, will relinquish that position from April 1 “for personal reasons”. He only fulfilled that position on an interim basis. “After a career of 10 years as a deputy public prosecutor, of which the last three years as acting public prosecutor, I have decided for personal reasons … Read more
Terror Italian anti-terrorist police on Tuesday carried out searches of eighteen people linked to Abdesalem Lassoued, the Tunisian who shot dead two Swedes in Brussels on October 16, 2023. These are people with whom Lassoued is said to have had contact when he stayed in Italy between 2012 and 2016. The eighteen people are of … Read more
crime Shots were fired again in Brussels on Monday evening, this time in the municipality of Forest. A man was injured. The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. in the Hoogte Hundred district in the Brussels municipality of Vorst. This was confirmed by the South police zone (Anderlecht/Vorst/Sint-Gillis), but it will not comment for the time … Read more
Shots were fired in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek during the night from Saturday to Sunday. One person was injured, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office reports. “Yesterday around 11 p.m., the police services of the Brussels North zone were called to gunfire in Schaarbeek, in Doctor Elie Lambottestraat,” says public prosecutor Stefan Vandevelde. “At the … Read more
A shooting took place in Doverstraat in Anderlecht last night. This is reported by Het Laatste Nieuws and confirmed to De Standaard. Little is known about the circumstances. “Several shots were heard and bullet casings were found,” said the South zone police. There were no injuries. In recent days, the capital has been shocked several … Read more
Gun violence Another person was injured in a new shooting on Thursday evening in Vorst. A young man was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to the buttocks and hand. The young man said he was watching fireworks in the Dudenpark in the Brussels municipality of Vorst around 8:30 p.m. Suddenly he would have felt … Read more
Paleontology Several bones of mammoths and other animals from the Paleolithic era were discovered last week at the Metro 3 yard in Brussels. This happened during preventive archaeological excavations by Urban.Brussels. “We found a femur and a piece of tusk from a mammoth, and a bone from a wild horse. In addition, there were also … Read more
crime The Brussels police intercepted someone with a Kalashnikov during a check in the Marolles. This was reported by VRT NWS and confirmed to our editorial team. It is not clear whether there is a link with the shootings in recent days. According to the VRT, an anonymous check took place yesterday/Wednesday in Kuipersstraat in … Read more