2015 in Belgium

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The following lists events that happened in 2015 in the Kingdom of Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Philippe ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Charles Michel

Events

January

• January 3 - Belgian media reports that serial rapist and murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken will be euthanised in prison in Bruges on 11 January. ^[2]
• January 15 - Belgian police kill two suspected terrorists in an anti-terrorism raid near Verviers. ^[3]

June

• June 28 - A coach driver from Northern Ireland is killed and several teachers and schoolchildren from Brentwood in Essex are injured after a coach crashes near Ostend. ^[4]

November

• November 6 - Resignation of André-Joseph Léonard as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels comes into effect; Jozef De Kesel, bishop of Bruges, named as his successor. ^[5]
• November 21 to 25 - Brussels lockdown in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks.

December

• December 12 - Jozef De Kesel installed as archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels

Deaths

• 5 January – Alfons Peeters, 71, footballer (b. 1943)
• 10 January – Junior Malanda, 20, professional footballer (b. 1994)
• 26 January – Louisa Colpeyn, 96, actress (b. 1918)
• 18 February – Claude Criquielion, 58, professional road bicycle racer (b. 1957)
• 25 March – Joris Van Hauthem, 51, politician (b. 1963)
• 2 April – Steve Stevaert, 60, politician (b. 1954)
• 13 April – Noël De Pauw, 72, professional racing cyclist (b. 1942)
• 22 April – Régis Ghesquière, 65, decathlete (b. 1949)
• 13 November – Éliane Vogel-Polsky, 89, lawyer and feminist (b. 1926)

See also

• 2015 in Belgian television

References

1. "Philippe, king of Belgium | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "Belgian serial rapist and murderer Fran Van Den Bleeken 'to be euthanised' in January". 3 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
3. "Belgian anti-terror raid in Verviers leaves two dead". BBC News. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
4. "NI driver killed in Belgium school trip bus crash". BBC News. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
5. "De Kesel becomes head of Roman Catholic Church in Belgium". Flanders News. VRT. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2017.