2023-10-17 20:30:00
• Two people were killed Monday evening by a man armed with an automatic rifle in Brussels, near Sainctelette squareboulevards of Ypres and the Ninth line. A third person was seriously injured. In the evening, the Islamic State organization claimed responsibility for the attack.
• After a night on the run, the author was killed Tuesday morning in an exchange of fire with the police during his arrest in Schaerbeek, near the Bear Cage. The police operation came to an end around 3 p.m. and the security perimeterwhich extended from Place Verboekhoven to Place du Pavillon, was lifted.
• The prosecution identified him: Abdesalem Lassoued was a 45-year-old Tunisianwho was living in Belgium in an irregular situation after an asylum application rejected in October 2020. He had been recognized guilty of common law offenses in Tunisia and was known for suspicious acts by the Belgian police.
• The perpetrator had been convicted in Sweden in 2012 for drug chargesreported this Tuesday evening SVT Nyheter, a news program on the Swedish public channel.
• The National Security Council met this afternoon to assess the situation. A press conference followed, from which it emerged in particular that the threat level in Brussels had been reduced to three and that there was currently no indication that the perpetrator of the attack belonged to a network. Two people were, however, arrested by the police in order to be interviewed “because of their potential contacts with the alleged perpetrator of the attack“.
• The author of the killing claimed his membership in The Islamic State in several videos on social networks. A foreign police service informed Belgium in 2016 that it presented a radicalized profile and he wanted go and wage jihad in a conflict zone. But it did not appear not on the Ocam list people to be monitored by the security services.
• The three victims are Swedish citizens, who came to Brussels to support the Swedish football team in their match against the Red Devils on Monday evening. In a video, the author of the attack boasts of having killed three Swedes. Sweden does the subject of a increased terrorist threat after several burnings of the Koran in the country.
• The terrorist threat level has been raised to 4 (very serious) in the Brussels Region, and to 3 (serious) in the rest of Belgium. The threat level was reviewed at the National Security Council, which met this afternoon. During a press conference, the Prime Minister indicated that he was lowering the threat level to 3.
• The mayor prevented from Schaerbeek Bernard Clerfayt (DéFI) asked the resignation of Secretary of State for Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V)pointing “failures” of the Immigration Officewho would not have verified Abdesalem Lassoued’s home address nor transmitted the information in his file to the municipal services.
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