Sentenced to ten years in prison for an attempted suction attack on a Belgian military base, Nizar Trabelsi has just been sent back to Belgium after being acquitted in the United States. His expulsion to Tunisia being impossible, the question of his fate is now raised. If he can neither stay in Belgium, nor be sent back to Tunisia, there may be a track to dig, notes Nadia Geerts, our Brussels columnist: Nizar Trabelsi has a 35-year-old daughter in Germany, and a 23-year-old son in France…
On August 6, the Belgian press announced that Mohammed Khatib had just been fallen from his refugee status. This Palestinian who had lived in Belgium for 15 years and benefited from the political asylum since 2015 was under a procedure for revising his international protection launched by the General Commissariat for Refugees and Stateless people in the spring of 2024. Mohammed Khatif is indeed relieved by the OCAM (Coordination body for the analysis of the threat) as a hate preacher, as soon as he openly proclaims his support Hamas and at the Popular Liberation Front of Palestine, two organizations on the European list of terrorist organizations. It is also the figurehead of Samidoun, which the Belgian government has recently announced wanting to dissolve.