German investigators have carried out a search of the apartment of a 45-year-old Tunisian in Dresden. The man had received a video from Abdesalem Lassoued, the perpetrator of the attack in Brussels. The man from Dresden would not be considered an accomplice. A house search is also said to have taken place in France.
The perpetrator of the attack on the Swedish supporters, two of whom were killed, not only made a video in which he claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack, but also swore allegiance to the Islamist terrorist group IS in another video. According to Bild, the Tunisian terrorist from Schaerbeek forwarded the latter video to 26 contacts, including the man from Dresden.
According to Bild, the investigation shows for the time being that the man from Dresden does not hold extremist views himself. Nor was any incriminating material found in his home. He has therefore been released and is not considered an accomplice. The man did not want to tell Bild why he received the video of the man who murdered the two Swedish supporters.
Bild writes that the video was sent to eleven contacts in Belgium and fifteen contacts abroad. In Germany, the man had contacts in Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it said. The investigation is said to have shown that the terrorist from Schaerbeek still had contact with two other men and a woman in Dresden, but little more is known about this. In any case, they would not have received the video
The federal public prosecutor’s office, which is leading the investigation into the attack that killed two Swedes, informed BRUZZ that Belgium did not order the searches. The federal public prosecutor’s office has shared the available information internationally. “It appears that the German and French police forces have responded to this,” said spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt. If our neighboring countries’ search yields interesting information, Belgium will build on.
This article is originally published on bruzz.be
