2015 in Belgium

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Last updated December 09, 2025

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

Incumbents

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

Events

January

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

June

28 June - 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

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

December

12 December - 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)

References

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

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[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.

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