Three people were arrested on Monday in the investigation into the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of two Swedish football supporters on October 16, including two in Brussels. This is reported by VRT Nieuws and confirmed by the federal public prosecutor’s office. The three people were placed under arrest warrant by the investigating judge.
“In the context of the federal public prosecutor’s file regarding the October 16 terrorist attack in Brussels in which two Swedish football supporters were murdered, five house searches took place on Monday morning,” said public prosecutor’s office spokesman Eric Van Duyse. “Three searches took place in Ninove, one in Sint-Joost-ten-Noode and one in Ixelles.”
“Three people were deprived of their liberty for interrogation,” the public prosecutor’s office spokesperson continues. “Two of them were suspected by the investigating judge of murder in a terrorist context and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. The third was suspected of violations of the Weapons Act. All three have been placed under arrest warrant.”
The federal public prosecutor’s office will not provide any further comment for the time being.
The attack took place on Monday evening, October 16, shortly after 7 p.m., on Saincteletteplein in the center of Brussels. The gunman, Abdesalem Lassoued, first opened fire on a taxi and then on the fleeing passengers of that taxi. Those passengers fled into the entrance hall of a building, but Lassoued followed them and shot them there.
After the shooting, a manhunt began for the perpetrator, who claimed responsibility for the attack in a video on social media shortly after the incident. Just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning, October 17, the man was finally shot in a drinking establishment in Schaarbeek.
In the investigation, a man from Tervuren was previously placed under arrest warrant who, according to the federal public prosecutor’s office, can be linked to the weapon used during the terrorist attack. According to his lawyer, the man denies any involvement in the attack.
This article is originally published on bruzz.be
