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Brussels shooting: Gunman who killed two Swedes had escaped Tunisian prison
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67195715?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
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Belgium’s Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne resigned on Friday over what he called a “monumental and unacceptable error with dramatic consequences”.
On the evening of Monday 16 October, Lassoued, a 45-year-old man from Tunisia, started shooting at passers-by with an assault rifle in central Brussels.
Brussels public prosecutor Tim De Wolf blamed understaffing in his office for the failure to act on the extradition request.
Following a string of Quran burnings by anti-Islam activists in Sweden, the government has been warning of a heightened risk to Swedish nationals.
This has sparked angry reactions in Muslim countries, and in August the terror alert was raised to the second-highest level following threats by Islamic extremists.
The shooting is being treated by the Belgian prosecutor as a terrorist attack - and comes at a time of heightened security concerns across Europe linked to the Israel-Hamas war.
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