2023-10-21 12:33:52
The kern meets this Saturday followingnoon to discuss the resignation of Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne and the reasons which pushed him to do this. Annelies Verlinden is in trouble today.
According to information published this Saturday by Business AM, which L’Echo was able to confirm in part from a good source, a “red notice” was sent by Tunisia to the Belgian police in 2022 concerningAbdesalem Lassouedthe author of the double terrorist assassination of October 16 in Brussels.
Une “red notice” is a request for restricted reporting, limited to a few countries, including Belgium. Problem: this report was made with the simple mention of the offense of escape from prison. An offense which… is not punishable in Belgium. Reason why the police requested additional information from Tunisia.
A sentence of 26 years of imprisonment to be served
To this request, Tunisia did not respond and chose another procedural path, that of the extradition request so that Belgium might get its hands on Abdesalem Lassoued who was to serve a sentence of 26 years in prison in his country of origin, for murder. This part of the procedure had to be managed here by the FPS Justice, then the Brussels public prosecutor’s office.
The magistrate in question, an experienced man specializing in international law, had handled the Carles Puigdemont case.
As we know, it was a magistrate from the Brussels public prosecutor’s office who did not follow up on this request for a “legal reason”, indicates a source. The magistrate in question is a sixty-year-old, extremely experienced and a long-time specialist in the field of international law and mutual assistance. This is how he handled the Carles Puigdemont file on behalf of the Brussels public prosecutor’s office, since seconded from the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. It should be noted that the FPS Justice, ultimately responsible for the procedure, had not contacted the Brussels public prosecutor’s office in this case.
The existence of a “red notice” and the extradition request resoundingly contradict the statements of the Ministers of Justice and the Interior, carried out at the beginning of the week, which affirmed that Lassoued had not been on the radars of the services. “The red notice was not prepared correctly,” Verlinden told Business AM.
This morning, neither the general prosecutor’s office, nor the public prosecutor’s office, nor the FPS issued any comments, referring to the statements of Vincent Van Quickenborne and Johan Delmulle on Friday evening.
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