2002
Roller Parade
Launched in Brussels in 2002 on the Parisian parade model, the Roller Parade gathered up to 6,000 skaters every Friday evening for a free twenty-kilometre ride through the capital, escorted by a police unit on skates. From 2003 it became the Belgium Roller Parade and expanded to seven cities: Hasselt on Mondays, Namur on Tuesdays, Ghent on Wednesdays, Liège on Thursdays, Brussels on Fridays, Mons on Saturdays and Koksijde on selected Sundays, with a free roller-skating school in the Bois de la Cambre.
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486 articles referenced in the archive between 2002 and 2016.
2002 · 44 articles
Magic skates for the Brussels police
La Dernière Heure · June 22, 2002 · Pierre De Vuyst (text) · Olivier Pirard (photo)
City roller fever
La Libre Belgique · June 22, 2002 · P.D.G. (text)
Police on skates and summer stroll
Le Soir · June 22, 2002 · Alain Gérard (text) · Jean-Louis Wertz (photo)
Roll on, youth!
La Capitale · June 22, 2002 · Michel Declercq (text) · V. Fromont (photo)
At 240 km/h on a circuit
La Dernière Heure · June 22, 2002 · V.Li. (text)
All on rollers!
Le Soir Junior · June 23, 2002 · Jean-Louis Mertens (photo)
Carl has hung up the keys to the Who's Who's: now, he skates
La Capitale · June 29, 2002 · Sylvie Degrelle (text) · V. Fromont (photo)
2,500 "pedestrians" skated in Brussels
Le Soir · July 5, 2002 · Jean-Louis Wertz (photo)
First Brussels Roller Parade: Cops and Rollers
JT RTL · July 5, 2002
Rollers on the city tracks
La Dernière Heure · July 13, 2002 · Karim Fadoul (text) · Bauweraerts (photo)
2003 · 257 articles
The 100 Personalities Shaping Culture and Leisure in Belgium
Télémoustique · February 26, 2003
Mons Roller Parade on june 28 Community policing running on wheels
La Nouvelle Gazette · March 4, 2003
The training of the rollercops
La Tribune de Bruxelles · March 13, 2003
Belgium Rollers take over 7 cities during summer months
Belga · April 2, 2003
"Belgium Rollers": rollerblade parades in 7 cities during the summer
Belga · April 2, 2003
The Roller Parade shifts into high gear
Zone 02 · April 2, 2003
Even more police officers on roller skates during the summer rides
Het Laatste Nieuws · April 3, 2003 · EMS (text) · HGG (photo)
Rollers • Belgium Summer Tour 2003 Summer evenings on wheels
Courrier de l'Escaut · April 3, 2003
Roller Parade becomes a craze across Belgium
De Morgen · April 3, 2003
Rollerblade rides for everyone
La Capitale · April 3, 2003
2004 · 90 articles
Rollerblading gets its own holiday on the calendar
Vlan · April 6, 2004
Rollerskating celebration at Bois de la Cambre. Initiations and demonstrations during the last day of the European Days on April 18
La Dernière Heure · April 8, 2004
Go Rollerblading!
Vlan · April 20, 2004 · P.R. (text) · P.R. (photo)
To better showcase the region's treasures
La Meuse · April 27, 2004
Saint Michael is watching over us!
La Capitale · May 16, 2004
120 participants at the first Skater Day in Eupen
Grenz-Echo · May 17, 2004
The Police's 'secrets' almost all revealed
La Meuse · May 17, 2004
Ready to glide?
Euro Vlan · May 19, 2004
Belgium Rollers
Mochi Magazine · May 19, 2004
Brussels Roller Parade on TV Brussel News
TV Brussel · May 26, 2004
2005 · 90 articles
First "roller parade" on Sunday, May 22
La Nouvelle Gazette · May 4, 2005
Let's put on our rollerblades
Vers l'Avenir · May 7, 2005
Roller Parade
Bravo Uccle · May 18, 2005
At Roller Skating Day, whoever wants to roll can!
Metro · May 20, 2005
It runs on wheels
De Zondag · May 22, 2005
Roller Parade
Bravo Uccle · May 25, 2005
Our Capital Everything runs smoothly
Brussel Deze Week · May 25, 2005
Everything runs on wheels
Passe-Partout Anderlecht · May 25, 2005
Roller Parade
Passe-Partout Anderlecht · May 25, 2005
Roller Parade
Passe-Partout Jette · May 25, 2005
2006 · 1 article
2009 · 1 article
2010 · 1 article
2016 · 1 article
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La Tribune de Bruxelles · May 22, 2003 · Annabella Nezri (text) · D. Bauweraerts (photo)
'Ten ideas a minute'
Le Soir · May 26, 2003 · Anne-Cécile Huwart (text) · Alain Dewez (photo)
Premières estimations d'une fête du voisinage bien célébrée
La Libre Belgique · May 28, 2003 · P.D.G. (text)