2023-10-20 21:41:34
Tunisia had sent Belgium, in the summer of 2022, an extradition request for Abdesalem Lassoued, sentenced to 26 years in prison in his country of origin. A request which was not processed by a magistrate from the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. Article reserved for subscribers By Louis Colart, Xavier Counasse, Joël Matriche Published on 10/20/2023 at 11:41 p.m. Reading time: 2 min
Earthquake in the federal government. Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD), Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime, announced his resignation on Friday, early evening, during a brief press conference. In the presence of the Attorney General of Brussels, Johan Delmulle, the Flemish liberal shared new elements on the journey of Abdesalem Lassoued, the author of the attack in Brussels which occurred Monday evening and which cost the lives of two Swedes. Elements which put the Minister of Justice in an untenable position. “We kept digging to find an answer to the question of how things got to this point,” begins Vincent Van Quickenborne. And on Friday morning, at around 9 a.m., the minister discovered that, contrary to the government’s statements so far, Tunisia was not at all opposed to the return of Abdesalem Lassoued – who had received an order to leave the Belgian territory on March 4, 2021. Worse: Tunis demanded his extradition.
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