Brussels: The Islamist gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels last weekend had escaped from a Tunisia prison where he was serving a long sentence, which prompted Tunisian officials to seek his extradition from Belgium, prosecutors said yesterday.
Belgian received the extradition request in August last year but it was not dealt with.
Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne resigned last week over what he called a “monumental error”. The attacker, 45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued, had been sentenced “to more than 26 years in prison in Tunisia in 2005, but had escaped from prison in January 2011”, the prosecutor said. | AFP…
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