2015 in Belgium

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

Incumbents

• Monarch: Philippe
• 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.
• 15 January - Belgian police kill two suspected terrorists in an anti-terrorism raid near Verviers.

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.

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.
• 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)

See also

• 2015 in Belgian television

References