2023-10-22 00:36:52
According to several media, and in particular our colleagues from the VRT, it was an anonymous phone call, in August 2022, which alerted the profile of Lassoued which would have contacted the police. The Belgian police contacted Tunisia for information, Tunisia then sent an extradition request to our country.
According to Minister Van Quickenborne, this official extradition request took place on August 15, 2022. The public prosecutor’s office then transmits this request to the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. a few days later. On August 22, 2022, the file would have already been sent by mail, followed by the physical version on September 8, 2022.
At the same time, and a sign that Tunisia considers the element important, the diplomatic channel is also activated. Foreign Affairs received the extradition request from the Tunisian Embassy in Brussels August 23, 2022, attached to a verbal note. This request was transmitted, once more, to the FPS Justice on August 26, 2022. A completely normal transmission, because Foreign Affairs plays, in this type of case, a simple role of “transmission belt.”
And then it’s over, there would have been no follow-up. The request would never have been processed by the prosecution. This was explained yesterday by the resigning minister Vincent Van Quickenborne. No information would have circulated in the opposite direction either… towards the FPS Justice, nor, moreover, towards the FPS Foreign Affairs, which specifies “having received nothing”, nor from the Tunisian Embassy. , nor the FPS Justice.
Has Tunisia no longer asked for anything? Was there no response to his extradition request? No one asks anyone for an account anymore?
It should be noted that the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hadja Lahbib, visited Tunisia in May 2023. It was a European mission, and not bilateral. The Lassoued file was not mentioned during the meeting between the minister and her Tunisian counterpart.
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