Convicted of assault and battery, escaped during Arab Spring: Abdesalem Lassoued was already in prison in Sweden and Tunisia

The perpetrator of the attack that killed two Swedes in Brussels on Monday evening has already been sentenced to prison in Sweden. Previously, Abdesalem Lassoued (45) was imprisoned in Tunisia, but he managed to escape there in 2011. That same year he arrived in Lampedusa on a small boat. Sources reported this to the Italian news agency ANSA.

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