Event Security in Charleroi

Charleroi’s event security brief splits cleanly in two, and the split matters more here than in most Belgian cities. Gosselies, a district north of the centre, hosts Sonaca’s aerospace-structures operations and the A6K digital-innovation hub, funded through the EU Recovery and Resilience Plan and set to scale from around 1,000 to 10,000 learners a year from autumn 2026; both sit on modern campuses that plan much like any purpose-built corporate site. The wider city centre, postal code 6000, carries a different reputation entirely, a legacy of Charleroi’s coal and steel past and regional unemployment that stood at 7.8% in Wallonia in 2025 against a national rate of 6.2%.

Licensing runs under Belgium’s Act of 2 October 2017, with agrement from the FPS Interieur. Most delegates arrive through Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Ryanair’s continental base and Belgium’s second-busiest airport, which handled a record 10.5 million passengers in 2024; terminal and access-road congestion at peak periods is routine enough that we pre-arrange pickup times rather than count on walk-up taxis. Belgium’s national OCAM/CUTA threat level has held at 3 of 4 through early 2026, citing heightened risk tied to regional Middle East escalations, a baseline we brief into every Charleroi booking regardless of venue. Read more on the Charleroi city page.

For clients running a wider Belgian itinerary, our event security in Brussels page covers the capital most Charleroi-bound delegates connect through, and our event security in Antwerp page covers the country’s other major commercial hub. Our country guide to Belgium sets out the national licensing and threat framework in full. For principal cover through a multi-venue day spanning Gosselies and the centre, our executive protection service extends beyond the event footprint, and general enquiries about event cover start at event security.