Credit: JapplemediaCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenBrussels-Central railway station, Brussels, Belgium · 2006
Joe Van Holsbeeck, a 17-year-old Belgian student, was fatally stabbed during an attempted robbery of his MP3 player in the crowded main hall of Brussels-Central railway station on 12 April 2006, sparking national outcry and a large silent march.
SOLVEDListenJewish Museum of Belgium · 2014
On 24 May 2014, a gunman fatally shot four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels in an antisemitic, Islamist terrorist attack — the first carried out in Europe by the Islamic State. French national Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted in March 2019 of the four murders and sentenced to life imprisonment; Nacer Bendrer, who supplied the weapons used in the attack, was convicted as a co-author and sentenced to 15 years.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenHeysel Stadium · 1985
Fighting between rival football supporters at Heysel Stadium in Brussels led to a crowd crush and the collapse of a stadium wall on 29 May 1985, killing 39 people and injuring about 600 before that year's European Cup final; Belgian courts later convicted 14 Liverpool fans and a Belgian police captain of manslaughter.
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Heysel Stadium disaster, from 1985. Open the file
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