Free Republic

Today, some 80,000 people participated in a silent march in Brussels to commemorate 17 year old Joe Van Holsbeeck, who was knifed on 12 April because he refused to hand over his MP3 player to two North African youths. The murder happened during the evening rush hour in a crowded Brussels central station. The murderers were filmed by security cameras, but it took a full week before the authorities released the footage. The assassins are still at large. This BBC report about the march, which was the largest protest in the country since 1996 when 300,000 marched through Brussels in...

Orthodox Jew shot in the head in street of Antwerp dies of his wounds By Associated Press November 18, 2004 An orthodox Jew died Thursday after being shot in the head outside his home in Antwerp earlier in the day. Investigators said it was too early to tell if the killing was the first deadly attack in an upsurge of anti-Semitic violence against one of western Europe's most visible Jewish communities. The British secretary to a local rabbi was shot once as he was unloading his car at 2 a.m. (0100GMT) in front of his home in a Jewish neighborhood,...