The perpetrator of the shooting in Ieperlaan in Brussels is 45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued from Schaarbeek, who is known to have been radicalized and had been reported to the police. State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) has now confirmed that he is of Tunisian descent. In 2019, Lassoued applied for asylum in our country, but that application was rejected in 2020. According to the federal prosecutor’s office, the Tunisian may have had terrorist motives. “Intelligence services fear that he wants to die as a kind of martyr for IS,” it said.
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This is what we know about perpetrator Abdesalem Lassoued (45): radicalized Tunisian and “martyr for IS” was reported to the police
