A magistrate’s blunder cost Van Quickenborne his ministerial post: a dossier on murder attempts was gathering dust

If everything had gone according to the book, our country would have extradited Abdesalem Lassoued (42) to Tunisia and he would be in prison there when Sweden came to play football at Heysel at the beginning of this week. His homeland was looking for him after he spectacularly escaped from a prison there in 2011. From a hole in the wall and the mysterious tip to the missing file: how Lassoued’s past caught up with Minister Van Quickenborne.

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