2+ day, 8+ min ago   (994+ words) The appalling crimes committed by Marc Dutroux in the 1990s led to huge public outrage. The case also resulted in fundamental reform of the judiciary and police system in Belgium and more focus on victims’ rights. The Missing Persons Unit, part…...

2+ day, 33+ min ago   (180+ words) Three people have been injured following two gas explosions in a building close to Brussels Central station. Around 100 people had been evacuated from the building as a precaution after a after a contractor accidentally drilled into a low-pressure gas pipe....

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (276+ words) Belgium’s all-time top scorer, Romelu Lukaku, has signed for Turkish club Fenerbahçe. At his official presentation in Istanbul, Lukaku described it as “only natural that he would return to his second home”, the country where his father once played. Having…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (269+ words) A month after the fatal fire at the Oxy building in central Brussels, the cause of the disaster remains unknown. Construction on the former Muntcentrum remains at a standstill. Around 250 workers were on the building site at the time of…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (469+ words) Construction workers have discovered a huge quantity of gold while renovating a building in Dendermonde. The gold ingots and coins, valued at around €9 million, were found in a chest, bricked into the walls of a cellar. The discovery was made…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (352+ words) “At first I thought they were €1 coins,” says Kobe, the 18-year-old student who found a gold hoard while working on a building site in Dendermonde. The haul is thought to be worth around €9 million. It’s not yet clear who is…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (178+ words) A total of 2.6 million passengers used Brussels Airport in July, the highest monthly figure since 2019 and a 2.8% increase on last July. The start of the summer holidays led to a sharp rise in the number of flights at Zaventem. The…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (400+ words) The bodies of two Belgian hikers missing since 1992 are thought to have been found after melting ice on a glacier in the Swiss Alps exposed their remains, according to the Missing Persons Unit. Last month, local police informed the unit…...

6+ day, 46+ min ago   (134+ words) Train punctuality in Belgium reached 94.6% in July, the highest rate in five years, according to figures from national rail company NMBS. The punctuality rate indicates how often trains arrive on schedule – meaning with less than six minutes’ delay – in Brussels…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (313+ words) Police in East Flanders have arrested a Belgian man suspected of carrying out a contract killing in Spain when he was 17. The victim, a Dutch national, was shot in a cannabis café, where a shooter was waiting for him. The…...