2023-10-16 18:46:25
According to the first known information, the shots were fired around 7:15 p.m. near Place Sainctelette, Boulevard d’Ypres and Boulevard du Ninième de ligne, near the buildings of the Vlaams Woningsfonds (Flemish Housing Fund). The emergency services arrived in large numbers on the scene. No suspect has yet been arrested.
According to information from Evening, the police forces favor the terrorist trail. Operations are reportedly underway. In several videos posted on social networks, the suspect presents himself as a jihadist and claims to belong to the Islamic State. “We live for our religion, we die for our religion, thank God,” he said in one of them. “I killed three Swedes just now,” he said further.
Antoine Iseux, spokesperson for the national crisis center, contacted by The evening around 9 p.m., claims that the institution was directly informed by the Brussels-Ixelles police zone. “We are monitoring the situation. For the moment, the case is still being followed by the Brussels public prosecutor’s office,” he explains. A threat analysis was requested from Ocam, the body for threat analysis.
The Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior and Justice are currently at the crisis center to monitor the situation.
In images taken by a local resident, we can see a man with a fluorescent orange jacket and a white helmet, a weapon in his hand. Getting off a scooter, he allegedly fired several shots in the street. Several people took refuge in the entrance hall of a building and the assailant pursued them to fire once more in this hall, in particular at a person on the ground.
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