It is said to be a 45-year-old man who appeared to be on the verge of fleeing to Albania. The Brussels public prosecutor’s office is limited to confirming that a suspect was apprehended in connection with a European and international arrest warrant issued against him following the shots. Austrian police had received information that the suspect was in Vienna. After intensive searches, the man was apprehended Monday morning around 9:15 a.m. in an apartment in Donuastadt, a district of the capital. He was reportedly surprised by the police intervention and offered no resistance.
As a reminder, a 43-year-old man, Erion H., was seriously injured by bullets in the chest and legs during what appears to be a settling of accounts in the Albanian criminal milieu which occurred on Saturday evening around 8:20 p.m. in the center Brussels, according to information disclosed by the daily Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN).
The daily argued that the main suspect is Noga K., a forty-year-old who had had a dispute with the victim for twenty years. He was convicted of shooting Erion H.’s father with one of his friends in the recovery room of an Albanian hospital in 2000. His sons responded a year later by organizing a raid on an Antwerp café where Noga K. was with an acquaintance, who died. Erion H. was arrested and handed over to Albania in 2013.
Noga K. was acquitted in 2005 before the Assize Court of Antwerp for the murder of the Albanian Astrit Shperdheja (37) in the street.
The Brussels public prosecutor’s office has not confirmed that the man arrested in Vienna is the Albanian criminal Noga K..