Officers had been searching for a 45-year-old Tunisian man who was known to police and was living in Belgium illegally.
Police in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish football fans on a street in Brussels.
“Frustrated, confused, scared. I think everyone was quite scared,” said Caroline Lochs, a fan from Antwerp. The suspect is alleged to have said in the video that, for him, the Koran is “a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself”. Police overnight raided a building in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek where the man was thought be staying but did not find him.
Information provided to the Belgian authorities by an unidentified foreign government suggested that the man had been radicalised and intended to travel abroad to fight in a holy war. But the Belgian authorities were not able to establish this, so he was never listed as dangerous.
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