A pick-up truck with a trailer drove through a union picket line at the Plenesses industrial estate in the eastern town of Verviers (Wallonia) this morning ‘One person was dragged along for about 30 metres and the other injured her knee,’ said a local union secretary The person who was dragged sustained injuries to his ribs and head as he clung to the trailer The driver of the car fled the scene and is wanted by the police The police cordoned off the area as divers went into the water with magnets The Limburg police told the Telegraaf that they were looking for evidence linked to the jewelry heist in Maastricht on 28 June 2022 this is the first major search operation in this case The robbery, in which at least 40 million euros worth of jewelry was stolen, is still unsolved. 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you are looking for cannot be found You may have followed a broken or outdated link Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Belgian prosecutors on Thursday called for jail terms of between 10 and 18 years for four men accused of leading a terror cell in the Belgian city of Verviers with suspected links to the Paris and Brussels attacks Two men were killed in a gunfight when police raided a property in Verviers in January 2015 Prosecutor Bernard Michel told the court in Brussels Thursday that the Verviers plot “was the rough draft of Paris,” AFP reported Michel said the group was directed by the suspected mastermind of the November 13 attacks in Paris who was killed days later in a raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis The trial of seven people on terrorism offenses related to the Verviers cell began earlier this month with nine other suspects either at large or dead The highest sentence being sought is 18 years jail for Mohamed Arshad who told the court he bought walkie-talkies and ingredients for explosives at the behest of Abaaoud as well as renting two vehicles and a Verviers flat Also On POLITICO Verviers terror trial gets underway By Vince Chadwick ‘We now need an election to allow people to make their own judgment,’ McGuinness wrote British PM wants Londoners to go about ‘business as usual.’ More than four-fifths said EU proposals not fit for modern needs EU can’t rely on ‘facts and evidence’ found in media and on the internet 2023 (WAFA) - The Belgian city of Verviers has become the latest city in Europe to cut its “ties with the Israeli apartheid regime” to “strengthen its support for the Palestinian people.” In its meeting, Verviers Municipal Council discussed a motion introduced by members of the Socialist Party (PS) and the Ecologist Confederation (ECOLO) that says that the City of Verviers wants to strengthen its support for the Palestinian people by cutting its ties with the Israeli apartheid regime The draft proposal introduced said that the municipal council of Verviers undertakes not to open relations with the State of Israel and its institutions as long as the apartheid system persists and the violation of international law by the Israeli authorities Verviers follows the Belgian city of Liége whose city council last month decided to end ties with Israel citing its regime of “apartheid colonization and military occupation.” Also in April Oslo (Norway) decided to exclude companies that directly or indirectly contribute to Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise and in February the mayor of Barcelona (Catalonia Spanish state) decided to suspend institutional ties with apartheid Israel the mayor of Belém (Brazil) has recently declared the city an Apartheid Free Zone The Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee (BNC) the largest coalition in Palestinian society saluted the Verviers decision and applauded what it described as “the tireless work of Belgian civil society that has made this possible.” BNC called in a statement on cities worldwide “to follow the inspiring examples of Verviers and Bélem by severing ties with apartheid Israel in support of the Palestinian struggle to dismantle apartheid.” Although Luc Sante grew up in New Jersey and New York City, the Belgium-born author and PEN World Voices Festival panelist says he has never stopped feeling like an outsider “While this has sometimes made me unhappy in my life it has nevertheless helped equip me as a writer,” he says Sante is perhaps most well known for his historic documentation of New York City’s underbelly in “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York” (1991) He revealed the personal history of his his youth, immigration, Belgium and his family in “The Factory of Facts” (1998) which hasn’t often been written about,” he says His ambiguous sense of identity is in part due to his parents moving back and forth during his formative years The local textile industry in Verviers collapsed in the 1950s A family friend in New Jersey encouraged a move stateside “But jobs weren’t so easy to come by here either and my parents didn’t much like the U.S.” says Sante The entire metropolitan area may have its ethnic enclaves but the Santes never lived near any other Belgians “Which meant that wherever my family lived was Belgian soil—like an embassy,” says Sante ever spoke to my parents in English.” But unlike typical immigrant parents “I wasn’t made to get a law degree I’d never use whose parents refused to foster a career in the arts.” After many decades of living and writing in New York City, Sante now lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College “I couldn’t afford the city anymore,” he says When he lived in the “slums” but always knew that he’d do better he thought he could one day afford the West Village but I couldn’t even afford the slums,” he quips His nostalgia for old New York incites a list of shops long gone: Isaac Mendoza Book Company on Ann Street in Lower Manhattan; Sloppy Louie’s on South Street; the Fulton Fish Market; the Gotham Book Mart in the middle of the diamond district a world—that wasn’t geared exclusively toward growth The city right now is like a person on an amphetamine binge Writers will interact with the sculpture as they read about what we as humans are (or are not) perpetually waiting for ©2025 WNET WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization In the same series of raids, two suspected terrorists were shot dead by police and another wounded in the Belgian town of Verviers Authorities said they had moved to dismantle an active terror cell spanning both European countries to avert an imminent terrorist attack aimed at police officers and buildings in Belgium Eric van der Sypt, a Belgian federal magistrate, said 13 suspected terrorists were arrested in Belgium overnight with a further two detained in France Nine of the suspects were held in raids in Molenbeek Belgian federal prosecutor Eric van der Sypt speaks to the press in Brussels Photograph: Julien Warnand/EPAAll three Verviers gunmen were Belgian nationals and are thought to have belonged to a homegrown cell of jihadis that recently returned from Syria Van der Sypt added that officers were still working to formally identify the two gunmen killed in the shootout police found ammunition and weapons including four Kalashnikovs Search teams also discovered several police uniforms mobile phones and false documents and a “significant amount of money” mobile phones and “different objects important for the investigation” “This operation was meant to dismantle a terrorist cell and also the logistic network behind it,” he said “This investigation for the time being has shown that these people had intentions to kill several policemen in the street and at police [stations].” Van der Sypt said there was no link between events in Verviers and last week’s terror attacks in Paris but revealed that an atrocity on a similar scale had been averted at the last minute “This operation stopped a major terrorist attack from taking place You could say a second potential Paris has been averted,” he said several Jewish schools in Belgium have been closed amid warnings that they could be targets for Islamist militants while cities across the country remain on a heightened state of alert French and German authorities arrested at least 14 other people on Friday suspected of links to Islamic State (Isis) and the Gare de l’Est train station in Paris was evacuated after a bomb scare with Europe on high alert for further potential terrorist attacks A senior Belgian counter-terrorism official, who was not named, told CNN that the alleged terror cell was believed to have received instructions from Islamic State. The US news outlet quoted a separate western intelligence source as saying that the ongoing terror threat in Europe involved up to 20 sleeper cells of between 120 to 180 people ready to strike in France Police sources told Belgian television stations they had resolved to launch the pre-emptive operation against the terrorist suspects a fortnight ago after bugging the homes and cars of the men who were said to have recently returned from fighting in the war in Syria The investigation concluded that a large-scale attack was imminent The pair were taken into custody following dawn raids on 11 residences in the German capital Police said the men were not suspected of planning attacks in Germany The Paris prosecutor’s office said 12 people were arrested in anti-terrorism raids in the region targeting people linked to the gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings and claimed ties to Isis The US secretary of state, John Kerry, was in Paris on Friday to meet French leaders and deliver a speech in the Paris city hall in a visit aimed at making up for the absence of senior US officials at Sunday’s mass rally in defiance of last week’s terrorist attacks The head of the European Union’s police agency warned on Friday that the large number of radicalised Islamic extremists across Europe their lack of command structure and growing sophistication make it “extremely difficult” for law enforcement agencies to foil every terror attack Rob Wainwright told the Associated Press that security and law enforcement agencies need to cooperate more closely He said the threat is evolving as cells controlled by a clear commander have been replaced by “thousands of independent actors or semi-independent terrorist suspects” who are difficult to track “That’s the real problem I think that the intelligence community faces right now,” he said The French newspaper Le Figaro reported on Friday that several French national media websites were experiencing problems with serving pages The problem was traced to a common service provider which said it was investigating an “incident” with its core network You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Belgium – With Europe dreading more terror Belgian authorities said they pre-empted a major attack by as little as hours Thursday killing two suspects in a gunfight and arresting a third in a vast anti-terrorism sweep that stretched into the night The suspects had apparently returned from Islamic holy war in Syria The one who was arrested was charged with belonging to a terrorist organization "As soon as they thought special forces were there they opened fire," federal magistrate Eric Van der Sypt said police continued with searches in the rustbelt town of Verviers and the greater Brussels area seeking more clues in a weeks-long investigation that started well before the terrorism spree last week that led to 17 deaths in the Paris area The Belgian operations had no apparent link to the terrorist acts committed in France who attacked the office of a satirical newspaper and a kosher grocery store the suspects in Belgium were reportedly aiming at hard targets: police installations "They were on the verge of committing important terror attacks," Van der Sypt said at a news conference in Brussels anxiety has grown as the search continues for potential accomplices of the three Paris terrorists all of whom were shot dead by French police Authorities in Belgium signaled they were ready for more trouble by raising the national terrorism alert level from 2 to 3 "It shows we have to be extremely careful," Van der Sypt said The Verviers suspects "were extremely well-armed men" equipped with automatic weapons Authorities previously said 300 Belgian residents have gone to fight with extremist Islamic formations in Syria; it is unclear how many have returned The suspects in Verviers opened fire on police when they closed in on them near the city's train station There was an intense gunfight for several minutes Video posted online showed a dark view of a building amid blasts No police were wounded or killed in the clash which occurred at the height of rush hour in a crowded neighborhood of this former industrial town of 56,000 about 80 miles southeast of the capital Belgian authorities said they were looking into possible links between a man they arrested in the southern city of Charleroi for illegal trade in weapons and Amedy Coulibaly who killed four people in a Paris kosher market last week The man arrested in Belgium "claims that he wanted to buy a car from the wife of Coulibaly," Van der Sypt said this is the only link between what happened in Paris." naturally" we are continuing the investigation Several other countries are also involved in the hunt for possible accomplices to Coulibaly and the other gunmen in the French attacks Former Oklahoma State basketball player Darrell Williams has signed a contract with Verviers-Pepinster of the Basketball League Belgium (BLB) Division I (Scooore according to Texas A&M-Commerce's men's basketball program Williams inks with Verviers-Pepinster Wolves in the League Belgium (BLB) Division I (Scooore! League). #WeAreLions pic.twitter.com/sFvZArJfy2 "I am very thankful to be in this position and have the opportunity to play professional basketball overseas," Williams said via lionathletics.com "I want to thank my coaches and everyone associated with A&M-Commerce basketball for giving me the chance to make this possible." In 2014, the charges against Williams were dropped after new evidence unearthed by nonprofit organization Chicago Innocence Project led the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to find grounds for a mistrial. Williams was able to receive his diploma from Oklahoma State in May Williams, who averaged 3.8 points and 4.6 rebounds in just 9.4 minutes per game on the Chicago Bulls' Las Vegas summer league team, finished his college career with A&M-Commerce earlier this year. In his only season at A&M-Commerce, Williams was named Lone Star Conference Newcomer and Player of the Year after averaging 18.5 points and 12.4 rebounds per game at the Division II school. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem As well as being the managing director of Champagne Palmer Rémi Vervier is also the house’s oenologist He tells Richard Woodard about the brand’s exacting standards MID JULY in Champagne is a time of waiting Waiting for the quality of the growing season to show itself yet more waiting for the year ’s maximum permitted yields to be set It’s a tense time for winemakers and company executives So what is it like for Champagne Palmer & Co’s Rémi Vervier fulfils the dual roles of managing director and oenologist for the house this year is looking good,” he says with a remarkably relaxed smile The volume is there also – it’s quite high Production is always a hot topic in Champagne but recent years have seen the temperature of the debate sizzle thanks to 2020’s artificially low yield limit – a response to the devastating impact on sales thanks to Covid-19 – and the climatically awful 2021 There was widespread relief at 2022’s bountiful crop but many houses have faced supply shortages in the face of stronger-than-expected global demand for sure you have this level of the crop that follows the direction of the sales,” says Vervier “It’s gone maybe too much in one direction It’s better to have something closer to the average for viticulture But it’s a very clever system to manage production we’re the only region in the world to be doing this given that growers will be allowed to increase the maximum level of their personal reserve from 8,000 kilogrammes per hectare (kg/ha) to 10,000kg/ha – a reaction to the unpredictable character of recent climate-change-affected harvests because we think we will have a good harvest so increasing the reserve at the moment where the quality is there is very good for every single producer,” says Vervier although it costs a lot more to have so much more volume – and you have to have the vats for that.” because of the growth strategy that the business – a quality-focused cooperative founded by seven Montagne de Reims grower families in 1947 – has been pursuing in the recent past “The Palmer brand has been developing over the past 10 years,” explains Vervier “We have a trend of 10%-plus growth per year in volume terms – so we have planned this We are a little bit safer than the others because we are not in cruise-control mode When Palmer did face shortages of some higher-end products about 18 months ago – Blanc de Blancs Grands Terroirs – Vervier took firm action “The key is not really the quantities of the bottles we lose the promise we have made to the customer of waiting six months after disgorgement That is not the promise we have for the consumer.” In other words it’s better to sacrifice short-term volume for the sake of long-term reputation Through the peaks and troughs of demand and production the Palmer strategy has remained consistent and Vervier would like to double that figure by about 2030 but without changing the quality parameters: four years on the lees for the core brut expression “I have to imagine the sales at a minimum of five to seven years from now,” he says “That’s why I have my crystal ball on my desk.” That crystal ball is focused on four key growth markets: the UK Palmer is also strong in the Nordic countries but Vervier sees less growth potential there the company is distributed by C&C Group (Bibendum with a strong emphasis on restaurants and wine shops Rock stars: bottles of Champagne maturing in the cellar Five years ago Palmer had no presence in Japan but and the market’s belated post-Covid bounce-back Vervier is bullish about the prospects here “Now we are moving forward into the next level,” he says One quality shared by all of these markets is the high degree of competition in the Champagne market How does a relatively low-profile brand like Palmer stand out from the crowd “Not a lot of Champagne companies have their CEO totally involved in the winemaking process,” he says “It shows that this company is focused on the elaboration of great wines.” Then there is the Palmer vineyard footprint largely concentrated around the grands and premiers crus of the Montagne de Reims (supplemented by fruit from the Côte de Sézanne “The impact of the Montagne de Reims is so strong,” explains Vervier “The wines are really the expression of the Pinot Noir of the north face of the Montagne de Reims and the Chardonnay coming from the east face of the Montagne de Reims.” For a region that focuses so strongly on the Côte des Blancs as a source of fine Chardonnay with quality crus such as Trépail and Villers-Marmery offering elegance and purity in Palmer ’s Blanc de Blancs alongside a smaller proportion (about 15%) of fruit-forward Sézanne wines “The style is really Montagne de Reims-oriented,” says Vervier It makes the Blanc de Blancs of Palmer naturally stand out from the crowd It’s a real plus for a small brand like us We can do a vertical of Blanc de Blancs at 10 The ultimate expression of Palmer ’s Montagne de Reims signature is Grands Terroirs a top-end vintage wine launched in 2019 with 2003 which taught Vervier and his colleagues a valuable lesson A waiting game: patience paid off for the 2015 Grands Terroirs “We’re currently on the 2015 vintage, but I don’t know what will be the next,” Vervier admits. “We bottled 2018 in vintage, 2019 in vintage, and 2020 in vintage – but I don’t know yet which or how many of them will receive the Grands Terroirs label. We might be pretty sure it’s good, but how good? Is it exceptional or just very good? We have to wait a minimum of five to six years to make the decision.” Another Palmer signature is sustainability. More than 90% of the company’s vineyards are already certified HVE3 (high environmental value) and VDC (Viticulture Durable en Champagne), and the rest should follow by the 2024 harvest (“Each last point will be difficult to achieve because it’s very tiny plots,” observes Vervier). That process has taken close to a decade to complete, but three to four years ago, the company broadened its sustainability policies, moving beyond the vineyard to a more holistic philosophy encompassing every aspect of production, the people, and the way the business is run. “I like the global approach of this,” says Vervier. “It’s about the environment, the people, how you handle everything in your company to stay sustainable. It means thinking about how you can still exist in 10 years from now and trying to be in good health. But the end result is never achieved – it’s an ongoing process.” Earlier this year, Palmer achieved double ISO 14001 certification and a CSR Commitment label, assessed by certification body AFNOR, and in June it became one of the first Champagne producers to gain the status of a “mission-driven company” – effectively a legal and corporate commitment to pursuing social and environmental objectives. “When you change your status in this way, it’s not for fun that we do that,” says Vervier. “It’s an obligation, it’s in the heart of the company, and it will go over to the people who will manage the company in the future. It’s not for fun or for business or for marketing, it’s what we think.” Sustainability comes in many forms: environmental, social – and of course commercial. As Champagne faces ever-increasing costs for everything from grapes to bottles to energy to packaging, nobody is immune to these pressures. “The price of the grapes is finally the same for all the producers,” says Vervier. “I would even say a little bit worse for us because we have more than 50% in production in premiers and grands crus. “We have to face that, and we definitely have to increase the final price for the consumer. In 2023, the grape price will continue to increase, and we just hope that the consumer will be OK to pay for his or her bottle of Champagne with this price rise. “But we are lucky because we have the grapes, we have room to grow, and we have to just think how to do it in the proper way. It’s about quality of production, quality of business relationships, quality of distribution – that’s so important in terms of the future and the consistency of the brand.” Your email address will not be published. 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Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. 2015 9:15 AM [ET] | Originally published: November 16 2015 4:51 PM EST;The Belgian man now accused of organizing Friday’s attacks in Paris on behalf of ISIS was already on the radar of security officials in Europe who identified him earlier this year as the militant group’s handler in what an alleged plot to attack police in Belgium in January The French authorities named Abdelhamid Abaaoud as the key organizer of the Paris attacks on Friday night in which at least 129 people were killed in a night of shootings and suicide bombings While authorities initially believed Abaaoud was likely in Syria after the attacks, he was the target in a deadly raid early Wednesday morning in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis A woman blew herself up and another man was killed in the raid Belgian officials had earlier identified Abaaoud as the middleman connecting gunmen in Belgium to the ISIS central organization in Syria and Iraq following a commando raid that left two armed men dead in the town of Verviers The exact nature of Abaaoud’s alleged involvement in the Paris plot remains unclear But Belgian officials’ statements on his contacts with the Vervier gunmen underscore the ambiguities of the organization of past attacks attributed to ISIS in Europe ISIS has relied on a wide spectrum of potential attackers to those with little or no contact with the group “The difference between Verviers and Paris could just be a tiny detail could just be a telephone call that someone in the team did and then they got caught,” said Thomas Hegghammer the director of terrorism research at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and an expert on ISIS It also remains unclear where Abaaoud fits in the ISIS hierarchy and whether the Paris plot was directed by ISIS’s top leaders the attack on Friday marks the first time the group has executed such a complex and catastrophic act of violence in Europe — although over the past month alone it claimed credit for mass suicide bombings in Beirut and Ankara “It matters that it succeeds,” said Hegghammer in a phone interview on Sunday “If those types of attacks start working out then that distinction between a top-level or a mid-level plot becomes hair-splitting.” The Belgian-born Abaaoud is reported to have joined ISIS after traveling to Syria in 2014. The Belgian authorities say Abaaoud helped organize the cell that was later broken up in Verviers, reportedly acting as a conduit between the gunmen and the ISIS central organization Belgian commandos launched raids on residences in Verviers on Jan security forces found automatic weapons and chemicals required to make the high explosive TATP the same explosive used by suicide bombers in the Paris attacks In its communiqué claiming responsibility for the Paris attack ISIS announced an intention to strike again outside its territorial base in Iraq and Syria targeting states joining the U.S.-led military coalition against the group In the past ISIS had distinguished itself from other jihadist groups by maintaining control over a vast contiguous swath of territory in the two countries ISIS invested nearly all of of its resources in controlling and expanding that territory there is no indication he ever made contact with ISIS members At least one attack and some other unsuccessful attacks involved people apparently trained by ISIS returned from training for fighting with ISIS in Syria but not necessarily acting on ISIS leaders’ orders a 29-year-old French national of Algerian origin who shot dead four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24 is believed to have been radicalized during the five years he spent in a French prison While ISIS has threatened further attacks outside of Iraq and Syria — including one in Washington today — it is not clear whether the group is allocating more of its overall resources to massive attacks like Paris or whether it will continue to rely on sympathizers and lone wolfs “I don’t see anything suggesting it would stop so there will be more,” said Hegghammer Contact us at letters@time.com Goobtii uu ku aasna maayarkii ugu horreeyay ee magaalo ku taalla bariga Belgium ayaa laga helay wadnihiisa oo dhalo ku jira kaddib muddo ka badan qarni oo uu aasnaa Wadanihiisa ayaa laga helay dhalo uu ku jiro khamri waxaana la helay xilli dayactir lagu sameynayay goobtii uu ku aasnaa Maayarkii Pierre David magaalada Verviers ayaa geeriyooday sanadkii 1893-kii Qoraallo ku qornaa sanduuqa uu ku aasnaa ayaa muujinayaa in wadnaha la dhigay gudaha taallo isaga loo sameeyay sanadkii 1883-dii Maxime Degey oo ka tirsan waaxda howlaha guud ee magaalada Verviers ayaa warbaahinta RTBF u sheegay in sanduuqa ay soo arkeen shaqaale dayactir ku sameynayay goobta 20-kii bishii hore Mas'uuliyiinta magaalada ayaa bilaabay inay uruuriyaan dhaqaale la doonayo in lagu dayactiro taallo lagu qaddarinayo maayarkii ugu horreeyay ee magaaladaas isla markaana qoykiisa la weydisto in wadnihiisa la dhigo taallada Website rasmiga ah ee magaalada Verviers ayaa ku warramay in tobonaan sano ay ku qaadatay maamulka inay uruuriyaan lacago ku filan si ay u taagaan taallo qurxoon oo lagu maamusayo hogaamiyahan waxaa jiraa muran ku saabsan qaabka loo xusayo maayarkii ugu horreeyay ee halkaas Maxaa shacabka Belgium looga codsanayaa inay cunaan baradho badan? Sawirro : Belgium-ka oo laga hirgaliyay xarun lagu xananeeyo xayawaanka da'da ah Teendhooyin ka sameysan kartoono oo Belgium-ka lagu soo bandhigay Wuxuu ku noola Belgium xilli uu jahwareer ka taagnaa, gaar ahaan xilliggii madaxbanaanida ay qaadatay sanadkii 1830-kii. Wuxuu ahaa maayarkii ugu horreeyay ee magaalada Verviers intii u dhexeeysay sanadihii 1800 ilaa 1808-dii, waqtigaas uu Faransiiska maamulayay Belgium. Markii dambe, Belgium waxaa ka bilowday kacdoon ka dhan ah maamulkii Dutch, isla sanadkaas 1830, waxaa Pierre David mar kale loo doortay duqa magaalada. Waxaana maayarkan lagu xasuustaa in uu hirgeliyay adeegga dab damiska ee Verviers sandkii 1802-dii. Wuxuu si weyn ula dacsanaa fikraddii Faransiiska ee kacdoonka balse markii dambe wuxuu ku hoos noolaa nidaamkii Dutch sanadihii 1815 ilaa 1830-kii. Magaalada Verviers waxay si xun ugu burburtay kacdoonkii ka dhacay sanadkii 1830, Pierre David waxaa uu dib usoo celiyay kala dambeyntii magaalada, waana nin si weyn loo qaddarin jiray. wiresTopic:Terrorism after two people were killed during an anti-terrorist operation on January 15 Link copiedShareShare articleBelgian police have killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale" Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in Paris the incident heightened fears across Europe of young local Muslims returning radicalised from Syria But prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said the Belgian probe had been under way before the January 7 attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo A third man was detained in the eastern city of Verviers where police commandos ran into a hail of gunfire after trying to gain entry to an apartment above a town centre bakery "The suspects immediately and for several minutes opened fire with military weaponry and handguns on the special units of the federal police before they were neutralised," Mr Van Der Sypt said Public television RTBF showed video of a building at night lit up by flames Marie Laure from Verviers told RTBF she was in the street with her children when a police commando told them to run for cover We heard three or four big explosions and shots," she said All three suspects were citizens of Belgium which has one of the biggest concentrations of European Islamists fighting in Syria Other raids on the homes of men returned from the civil war there were conducted across the country adding that they were suspected of planning attacks on Belgian police stations "The searches were carried out as part of an investigation into an operational cell some of whose members had returned from Syria," he said there is no connection with the attacks in Paris." prosecutors said they had detained a man in southern Belgium whom they suspected of supplying weaponry to Amedy Coulibaly the killer of four people at a Paris Jewish grocery store after the Charlie Hebdo attack La Meuse newspaper quoted an unidentified police officer saying: "We've averted a Belgian Charlie Hebdo." who like Coulibaly claimed allegiance to Islamist militants in the Middle East killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo Overnight, private family funerals were held for five victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, including cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac. The latest edition of satirical magazine has sold out in France, sparking fury in some parts of the Muslim world for depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Belgium has taken a lead in EU efforts to counter the threat perceived from the return of foreign fighters from Syria. (AFP: Bruno Fahy) Per head of population, Belgium is the European country from where the highest number of citizens have taken part in fighting with Syrian rebels in the past four years, data compiled by security researchers have shown. Belgium has taken a lead in EU efforts to counter the threat perceived from the return of foreign fighters from Syria. The Belgian government believes about 100 of its nationals have come back from there, while a further 40 may have been killed and about 170 are still in the ranks of fighters in Syria and Iraq. Belgium is part of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State and has six F-16 aircraft taking part in bombing raids on Syria and Iraq. A court in Antwerp is due to deliver its verdict on 46 people accused of recruiting young men to join jihadists or of becoming jihadists in Syria, Belgium's largest Islamist militant trial to date. The court was to have given its verdict this week, but it was delayed for a month after the Paris violence. In Germany, police arrested a suspected supporter of the insurgent group Islamic State who was recently in Syria, federal prosecutors said. Gunshots and several explosions were heard on a residential street in Verviers. (AFP: Bruno Fahy) CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) Belgium - March 2022 - It is an extraordinary human charitable and sporting adventure that was experienced by about forty cyclists who left the "Don Bosco" Institute of Liège on March 30 covered a good part of Belgium in three days and as many stages to bring a cheque for several thousand euros for charity to the Salesian work of Verviers especially hard hit by last summer's floods made up of representatives from various Salesian works in Belgium - in particular and Tournai - covered 350 km in three stages "The fact to emphasize is the beautiful lesson of courage and perseverance of the young people who overcame their limits in the face of the cold And the accompaniment of the professors who relied on these young people to carry out the project despite the adverse weather conditions," said Fr Xavier Ernst ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007 This site also uses third-party cookies to improve user experience and for statistical purposes By scrolling through this page or by clicking on any of its elements Faire une remarqueMots-clés : VerviersEn direct "On s'est dit OUI à Las Vegas" : une animatrice belge se marie une seconde fois (vidéo) Annexer le Groenland par la force militaire Météo ce lundi: un ciel changeant avec un risque d'ondées locales Posez vos questions en relation avec l'actualité à la rédaction Si vous avez une question au sujet de votre abonnement, consultez notre FAQ ou contactez-nous via abonnes@lavenir.net Cultiver des tomates au jardin : quand vais-je pouvoir les planter et comment en prendre soin ? 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For tickets, visit https://tsmalta.com/whats-on , ticketline.com.mt please register for free or log in to your account but a lot remains to be done to get the situation back to normal in eastern Belgium The official death toll has been adjusted to 31 while 163 people are missing or "probably missing" 9 in 10 municipalities have been impacted by the floods The Walloon PM Elio Di Rupo thinks the damage will amount to hundreds of millions of euros 240 of the 262 municipalities have been touched Elio Di Rupo told reporters during a visit to Ensival He repeated that the damage is enormous: "It will take hundred of millions of euros or even billions to repair this" "What happened is beyond comprehension Weather forecasters said it was not possible to predict this About 17,000 families in Liège province are still without electricity which are among the hardest hit municipalities it could take a week before electricity supplies are back to normal an estimated 20,000 households were still without electricity on Sunday morning Belgium to apply for financial aid from Europe: "It will take hundreds of millions to repair the damage" About 20 villages in Wallonia have no drinking water About 2,000 tap water hubs suffered an impact from the floodings but it will take more time - a couple of days  - to repair others People are busy with cleaning up their houses All the material which they can no longer use is being put on the street where cranes are putting it into containers to take it away Some mayors expect a shortage of containers soon About 300 soldiers are helping in different provinces Militarymen were also searching houses in Pepinster today The official death toll stands at 31 at present while 163 people can't be reached - they are officially missing but it is hoped that a majority is okay and that they can't be reached as communication lines have been damaged Rail infrastructure has also been damaged across Wallonia spokeswoman for the rail infrastructure company Infrabel said it can take weeks before rail services in Wallonia are back to normal The map below shows the impact on Walloon railways and the different time frames to get things repaired The size of the impact can clearly be seen in the minicipality of Pepinster in Liège province: