2023-10-30 17:38:00
The council chamber must decide whether to continue his preventive detention, but at the request of the defense, the case was postponed until November 8. According to the federal prosecutor’s office, the man might be linked to the weapon used during the attack, which his lawyer contradicts.
The man, Lamjed K., born in 1979, was arrested last Wednesday during a search of a house in Tervuren, and placed under arrest the next day for murder and attempted murder in a terrorist context, and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. The man allegedly exchanged photos of an AR-15, the weapon used in the attack, with Abdesalem Lassoued, the perpetrator of the shooting, and also transmitted coded contacts.
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“My client denies any involvement in the facts and will present in the coming days the elements which refute the evidence once morest him,” declared his lawyer Guylain Mafuta Laman. “He is absolutely not religious, he goes out and drinks, and totally disapproves of the attack. He was also very shocked that someone he knew was responsible for these actions.” (With Belga)
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