Man who killed a police officer in Brussels previously asked for psychological help

The man who stabbed two police officers in Brussels on Thursday evening had asked for psychological help that morning in a confused state at a police station in Evere. Report that Belgian media based on reports from the Brussels public prosecutor’s office. One of the officers did not survive the attack.

The suspected perpetrator is said to have made “incoherent” remarks and expressed his hatred towards the police. He was taken to a psychiatric ward of a hospital by the police, where he was taken over by nurses. He left the hospital a few hours later. That evening, around 7:15 p.m., he attacked two officers with a knife. The suspect was shot by two other officers and later died of his injuries.

A motive is not yet known. However, there are indications that it could be a terrorist act. The man would The morning known to the police as a “potentially violent extremist” who ended up in prison in 2013. He would also be known as “radicalized” and since 2015 he has been on a so-called CELEX list, the list of the Extremism Cell of the prisons.

At 11 a.m., the Brussels public prosecutor’s office, together with the federal public prosecutor’s office, will hold a press conference about the case.

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