BRUSSELS –
The man who Friday night three soldiers in Brussels attacked with a knife, also had a namaakvuurwapen and two korans. He was shot and died in a hospital. The culprit is a Somali Belgian. His house in Bruges in the night from Friday to Saturday searched. In the interest of the research wanted justice not say what the search had yielded.
The man was with the knife in his hands towards the soldiers ran on the Émile Jacqmainlaan, on the edge of the centre of Brussels, not far from the famous main Market square. Two soldiers were slightly wounded. The offender called twice,Allahu akbar”. Justice treats it as a terrorist act. The mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, said that it was an isolated act of a single individual.
The offender was born in 1987 in Somalia. He came to Belgium in 2004 and in 2015 the Belgian nationality.