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
November 2015 Paris attacks
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A series of coordinated Islamic terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Beginning at 21:16, three suicide bombers struck
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
…with a minority Muslim population. In the 2010s, it gained international attention as the base for Islamist terrorists who carried out attacks in both Paris and Brussels. Molenbeek is a mostly residential municipality consisting of several historically and architecturally distinct districts. As of 1 January…
Public memorials for the victims and police near the scenes of some of the attacks
President François Hollande (pictured in 2013) was at the Stade de France during the attacks.
The Bataclan theatre in 2009
Civil service in remembrance of the attacks victims at the Place de la République on 15 November 2015