2023-10-27 11:51:00
“National police agents arrested in Benahavis”, in the province of Málaga (south), “a person for his involvement in the jihadist attack on October 16 in Belgium” and who was the subject of an arrest warrant. arrest issued by the Belgian authorities, the police said in a press release.
The perpetrator of the attack, a radicalized Tunisian named Abdesalem Lassoued, was shot dead by Belgian police.
The suspect arrested in Spain was the subject of an arrest warrant for “drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering and membership in a criminal organization.” He had false identity documents in his possession when he was arrested, the press release added.
This person was the subject of an investigation following the Belgian authorities reported his “possible link with the author of the attacks”. “The investigation determined how the two were linked by illicit activities linked to organized crime,” police said.
The suspect was placed under judicial supervision.
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As a reminder, the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office announced in a press release on Thursday that two searches had been carried out on Wednesday in Tervuren and Tongeren. A man had been deprived of his liberty. The suspect, Lamjed K., a Tunisian national, was charged with murder and attempted murder in a terrorist context and participation in the activities of a terrorist group. Federal prosecutors confirmed a potential link with the weapon used in the attack.
Before that, two Tunisians living in the Paris region had already been arrested on Monday and then placed in pre-trial detention. The investigation must still clarify their links with the attacker.
The attack on October 16 in Brussels, perpetrated with “an AR-15 type war weapon” according to the prosecution, killed two Swedes, a sixty-year-old and a seventy-year-old, who had come to support their national football team playing this evening – there once morest Belgium in Brussels.
A third Swedish fan, aged 70, was also seriously injured.
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