Belgium - Brussels Muslim Attacks People With AK-47

icehole · #31 ● 10-17-2023, 02:05 AM

and by wearing that bright orange jacket he wants to make what statement?

sniper_bamboo · #32 ● 10-17-2023, 02:25 AM

This happened at 250m from my step-dad appartement

allbassfearme · #33 ● 10-17-2023, 03:17 AM

Give me a clear line of sight and 800 yards or less...

**kellyhound** · #34 ● 10-17-2023, 03:47 AM

An estimated 300,000 Muslims live in Flanders, comprising ~5 percent of the region’s population, similar to the proportion of Muslims in Wallonia (~5 percent), numbering approximately 175,000.

However, the national capital of Brussels, a separate region altogether, hosts approximately 200,000–275,000 Muslims, comprising 20–
25 percent of the city’s population.

Additionally, close to 40 percent of all Belgian Muslims live in Brussels, making the city a crucial case study for integration, radicalization, and deradicalization.

More: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Aug/3...1/1/DALMIA.PDF

**kellyhound** · #35 ● 10-17-2023, 04:12 AM

Police shot and killed him inside a pub in Schaarbeek.
People were following him when he was riding a scooter through Brussels shouting Allah Akhbar etc. Looks like he was unwrapping the AK-47 there on the sidewalk?

During this morning's press conference, Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld) and State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor (CD&V) released more details about Lassoued.

According to Van Quickenborne, the Tunisian was known to the police for suspicious actions, human smuggling, illegal residence and state security. “In July 2016, unconfirmed information was sent to us via a foreign police service that the man had a radicalized profile and that he wanted to leave for a jihad conflict zone,” the minister said. “There were plenty of reports like that at the time, especially in the midst of the terror crisis. There were dozens of reports of this nature every day,” Van Quickenborne continued.

The information was investigated, but nothing further could be done with it. “In addition, there were no known concrete indications of radicalization within our services, which is why the person was not on the OCAD list.”

In November 2019, Lassoued applied for asylum in our country. “He received a negative decision in October 2020 and shortly afterwards he disappeared from the radar,” de Moor said. In February 2021, Lassoued was subsequently removed from the national register. According to De Moor, the man in his forties has never stayed in a Fedasil reception centre.

A month later, in March 2021, the Tunisian was ordered to leave the country.

Lassoued was spotted once in June 2022 at a mosque in Brussels. The incident was reported, but no further action was taken.

Earlier this year, a resident of an asylum center in Arendonk claimed that he had been threatened by the Tunisian via social media. “The victim reported this, adding that the person had been convicted of terrorism in Tunisia,” Van Quickenborne said. Lassoued was then signaled by the police for questioning and arrest.

“Due to the possible conviction for terrorism in Tunisia, the federal judicial police of Antwerp decided on Sunday evening, October 15, to convene a Joint Information Center (which was created after the attacks of March 22, 2016, ed.). That meeting was scheduled for today, Tuesday, October 17,” said Van Quickenborne.

“In the meantime, our services received information that the man had not been convicted of terrorism, but for common law offenses,” said the minister, who further emphasized that so far there had been “no concrete or acute terrorist threat.”

Before yesterday's shooting, Lassoued posted a message on Facebook in which he referred to the murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy in the United States. The boy was stabbed by his mother's landlord. The perpetrator later told police that he targeted both victims because of their Islamic faith and in response to Hamas' recent attack on Israel.

“They called the child who was killed in America today with 26 stab wounds a brutal crime because he was Muslim. If the murdered boy had been a Christian and the murderer a Muslim, they would have called it terrorism,” Lassoued wrote in the article.

16 hours before the attack, Lassoued also shared images referring to the conflict in Israel. The images show ruins with the text “support the Muslims in Gaza”. The following can be heard on the audio tape: “The victory of the vulnerable Muslims in Gaza is a duty for every Muslim. He has fulfilled his duty to the Lord of heaven and earth.”

According to the federal public prosecutor's office, there is no link between the shooting in Brussels and the conflict between Israel and Palestine. A link with the situation in Sweden - where Quran burnings have caused tensions in recent months - is possible according to a police source and even "very, very likely" according to a political source. According to the federal public prosecutor's office, it is also striking that Lassoued explicitly stated on social media that he had murdered Sweden.

Facebook has now removed the perpetrator's page. Lassoued also had a Tiktok account. He was not active there, but he did follow numerous Islamic pages. Striking: he also followed an anti-Swedish page called “Sweden Injustice”. Numerous conspiracy theories are shared, including the idea that Muslim children would be kidnapped by Swedish social services. For example, there is a video of a woman showing photos of her kidnapped children.

According to terror expert Faroek Özgünes, Lassoued is “a lone wolf”, or someone who acted alone. “But that does not alter the fact that he organized his actions. He chose his target very carefully and managed to get a weapon. The entire attack bears the signature of Islamic State (IS),” he says. According to Özgünes, Lassoued wanted to die “as a kind of martyr” for IS.

Last night the police carried out a house search in Schaarbeek, but Lassoued was not found. The Tunisian's wife was arrested and questioned last night. Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that the perpetrator was shot dead this morning in a café in Schaarbeek.