Violence and harassment in Belgium
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Orthodox British Jew murdered in Antwerp
Moshe Yitzchak Naeh, 20 a Hassidic Jew who worked as secretary to the local rabbi, was found shot in the head outside his home as he unloaded his car at 2am on 18 November.
22 November 2004 (103 words)
Death threat to protestor over van Gogh killing
Mimount Moussakla, a socialist senator was put under police protection after receiving death threats when she said that Belgium's Muslim Executive (an umbrella group) should have organised protests against the murder of Theo van Gogh, killed in Amsterdam by an alleged extremist on 2 November.
22 November 2004 (77 words)
King defends boss who allows the headscarf
King Albert II has voiced solidarity with a company boss who faces a death threat for defending an Islamic employee's right to wear the headscarf.
30 October 2004 (69 words)
Antwerp: Jewish student stabbed
Up to a thousand people demanding zero tolerance of anti-Semitism gathered in Antwerp to protest at the near-fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old yeshivah student on 24 June.
28 July 2004 (139 words)
Asylum centre attacked
A centre for asylum seekers was attacked on 3 July by three armed men wearing masks.
8 July 2004 (43 words)
ECRI reports on Belgian racism
A special report on Belgium has been issued by the European Commission Against racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the Council of Europe's expert body on combating racism.
27 January 2004 (92 words)
Murder of Arab exposes faultlines of Belgian racism
On 27 November 2002, Mohammed Achrak, a 27-year-old Islamic religious affairs teacher of Moroccan origin, was shot dead while visiting his family in the Borgerhout district of Antwerp.
3 April 2003 (2101 words)
Congolese army officers beaten by police
The police have described an incident in which two Congolese army officials were beaten by police officers at the Rogier metro station in Brussels as an 'unfortunate mistake'.
1 August 2002 (109 words)
Brussels: elderly right-winger shoots dead Moroccan couple
On 8 May, Hendrik Karl Vyt, a 79-year-old known Nazi sympathiser with a history of violence, barged into his neighbour's apartment in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels and shot dead a Moroccan couple, Habiba El Hajji and Ahmed Isnasni, injuring two of their five children.
1 August 2002 (401 words)
Tougher policing measures for eight Brussels districts
Government ministers Tobback and Wathelat announced that police in eight Brussels boroughs are to be given new powers to fight crime, including horse and dog patrols, and rapid response units.
1 October 1993 (126 words)
Police stop demonstration after immigrant death
A 21-year-old immigrant, Abdel Haq, was shot in the head and killed in Brussels on 12 May by the owner of a café who had previously commented, 'The first Arab I get my hands on, I'll shoot.
1 October 1993 (140 words)
Racism and fascism in Antwerp
Freddy de Coen, a Vlaams Blok candidate in local elections in Saint Nicolas, Antwerp, has been imprisoned -he is suspected of having imported women from sex clubs in the Philippines, Poland and Hungary and to have been implicated in the drugs trade.
1 February 1993 (96 words)
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