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Police shootout in Antwerp with far-right group leaves one dead
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 Shots were exchanged during a search carried out by police in the early hours of the morning at an address in Merksem, in the province of Antwerp, reports RTBF. One suspect has been killed by the police. The police operation targeted a small group with suspected links to violent far-right extremism. Investigators searched the address looking for weapons, notably homemade weapons. In addition to suspected arms trafficking, the suspects are also believed to have attempted to commit a terrorist attack, RTBF believes. The federal prosecutor’s office states that a total of 10 searches were conducted across the province of Antwerp this morning, turning up a large number of illegal firearms. The circumstances of the shoot-out with police officers is currently being investigated by federal investigators. Antwerp is currently experiencing a wave of violence linked to organised criminal gangs. The police have promised to get tough on violent criminals, giving local authorities and police forces new powers to crack down on organised crime. This criminal gang is not believed to be linked to the kidnap plot against Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne. A report published last year warned that right-wing extremism is growing at an alarming rate in Belgium. While Jihadism is still the leading threat, an annual report by the Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (OCAD) showed that the threat from far-right extremists had witnessed a "steep rise." https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...-one-dead-tbtb |
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Federal Government announces funding for 3 LGBTQ historical projects
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 Belgium's State Secretary for Equal Opportunities Sarah Schlitz has announced that over €300,000 will be allocated to two studies and an exhibition on LGBTQ history. The first research will focus on the history of lesbian movements in Belgium, with €100,000 to be awarded to a researcher/institution and a further sum of €149,000 of support for the Archives and Research Center for Women's History (CARHIF). The second research supported by the Federal Government has received €30,000 to quantify the extent of the 'anti-gender' movements in Belgium which attempt to roll back gender equality as well as the rights of the LGBTQ community, stated Schlitz's cabinet in a press release. A further €60,000 will be allocated to the exhibition "Homosexuals and lesbians in Nazi Europe" set to take place in the spring of 2023 at the Kazerne Dossin – a former Belgian army barracks in the Flemish city of Mechelen that was used by the Nazis as a transit camp to transport Jewish and Roma people to the concentration camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück. The site of the Kazerne is currently integrated into the Memorial, Museum and Documentation Center on Holocaust and Human Rights. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...rical-projects |
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Policeman killed, colleague wounded in knife attack in Brussels
Thursday, 10 November 2022 Police from the Brussels-North zone were on patrol on Rue d’Aerschot in Schaerbeek, Brussels, when they were attacked by a knife-wielding individual at around 7:15 PM on Thursday evening. One officer was wounded in the neck and has since died of his injuries. According to various media reports, the perpetrator shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked the patrolling police officers, but this information was not immediately confirmed by the public prosecutor’s office. A perimeter has been set up and an investigation launched by the prosecutor’s office. “Our police officers risk their lives every day to ensure the safety of our citizens. Today’s tragedy demonstrates this once again,” Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Twitter on Thursday evening following the knife attack, in which a police officer was killed and another wounded. "My thoughts are with the family and friends of the deceased officer," the Prime Minister said. "My sincere hope is that his hospitalised colleague will be fine." https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...k-knife-attack |
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Charleroi declares itself an 'anti-fascist city'
Tuesday, 24 January 2023 Charleroi’s municipal council on Monday adopted a motion to make it “an anti-fascist city." The motion also enshrined the existence of an “anti-fascist coalition” composed of the town’s political parties, trade unions, associations and members of civil society. This “anti-fascist coalition” is the result of discussions that started amid a general rise in far-right ideas and following the incidents that occurred on 25 January 2020 in Charleroi around the mobilisation of an anti-fascist front against the holding of a meeting of a new far-right party in the metropolis. On that day, according to the anti-fascist demonstrators, the police had used sprays, fire pumps and even batons to disperse them. This caused a certain amount of commotion, including within the city’s political class. The motion gives the coalition some general objectives, such as “to prevent by all legal means the dissemination of statements inciting hatred, racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, discrimination related to sexual orientation” or “openly fascist and xenophobic, on the territory of Charleroi.” Another objective is to relay information “when it concerns an event likely to incite hatred, racism, anti-Semitism [or] sexism,” or “openly fascist or xenophobic.” https://www.brusselstimes.com/357819...i-fascist-city |
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Grave of Flemish Nazi collaborator destroyed for second time in six months Tuesday, 31 January 2023 The grave of August Borms, who was executed after World War II for collaborating with the Nazis, has been destroyed for the second time in half a year – prompting Filip Dewinter, a member of the Flemish far-right Vlaams Belang party, to ask for camera surveillance at the cemetery. At the historic cemetery in the Antwerp district of Merksem, the grave of August Borms has been destroyed again. About half a year ago (in June 2022), this happened as well. Then, the City of Antwerp took on the restoration costs. https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgiu...-in-six-months |
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Despite previous racism controversies, Aalst Carnival participants don blackface Tuesday, 21 February 2023 After two years without an Aalst Carnival parade due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year's edition of the controversial three-day event again raised eyebrows as some participants were photographed proudly donning blackface. This weekend, the Sunday parade (called the 'Shrove parade') of Aalst Carnival drew some 105,000 spectators – a record according to the city. While the city announced the event's first day went off without any significant incidents, photos taken of a number of participants have caused controversy online. https://www.brusselstimes.com/376096...-don-blackface |
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Colonial statues in Halle given 'critical interpretation' but not removed
Tuesday, 7 March 2023 The Flemish city of Halle has decided not to remove but instead to adapt two controversial colonial references in one of its parks as a "reminder of the role Belgium played as a coloniser." In Halle's renovated Albert park stands a statue and a monument dating back to the colonial period: a bust of Leopold II and the monument 'Homage to the Colonial Pioneers'. Both have both stood there since 1953, but since Sunday last week, they have been given a new makeover and interpretation. https://www.brusselstimes.com/394563...ut-not-removed |
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Great replacement conspiracy: Protesters call for far-right debate at KU Leuven to be scrapped
13 march 2023 A group of academics, students, civil society organisations and residents of the city of Leuven is protesting a debate that will take place featuring Filip Dewinter of the Flemish far-right Vlaams Belang party. The topic is whether migration is an opportunity or represents a "great replacement" – a well-known far-right conspiracy theory. Given Dewinter's political history, the event – scheduled to take place in a KU Leuven auditorium on Monday 13 March – is set to feature a number of divisive far-right tropes. Dewinter is due to debate with Maurits Vande Reyde of the Flemish liberal Open VLD party. But in an open letter, protesters argue that Dewinter's promotion of the great replacement conspiracy theory is "dangerous and racist." https://www.brusselstimes.com/402593...to-be-scrapped |
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