Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
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Molenbeek-Saint-Jean or Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the western part of the region, it is bo
Molenbeek's Municipal Hall seen from the Place Communale/Gemeenteplein
Saint John's Dancers in Molenbeeck', Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1592
View into Brussels along the Brussels–Charleroi Canal from Molenbeek, c. 1855
De voddenrapers (The Trash Pickers), Eugène Laermans (1914), with Molenbeek as setting
Salah Abdeslam
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Salah Abdeslam is a Belgian Islamic terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison in France in 2022 as the only surviving member of a 10-man unit that carried out attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015,
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
…shooting were sourced from Molenbeek. The bombers of the November 2015 Paris attacks were also traced to Molenbeek; during the Molenbeek capture of Salah Abdeslam, an accomplice of the Paris bombers, protesters "threw stones and bottles at police and press during the arrest", stated the then-Interior Minister of…
Abdeslam on 14 November 2015