Spanish police announced Friday that they had arrested a person suspected of being involved in the October 16 attack in Brussels, in which two Swedes were killed, without providing information on his identity and nationality. “National police agents arrested in Benahavis”, in the province of Málaga (south), “a person due to his involvement in the jihadist attack on October 16 in Belgium” and subject to a warrant arrest warrant issued by Belgian authorities, police said in a statement.
The perpetrator of the attack, a radicalized Tunisian, was shot dead by Belgian police. The suspect arrested in Spain was the subject of an arrest warrant for “drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money laundering and membership in a criminal organization”. He had false identity documents in his possession when he was arrested, the press release added. This person was the subject of an investigation after the Belgian authorities reported his “possible link with the author of the attacks”.
Placed under judicial supervision
“The investigation determined how the two were linked through illicit activities related to organized crime,” police said. The suspect was placed under judicial supervision. This is not the first person arrested in this investigation: two Tunisians living in the Paris region were arrested on Monday and then placed in pre-trial detention. The investigation must still clarify their links with the attacker.
Then three days later, a 44-year-old Tunisian was arrested in Belgium, suspected of complicity with the author of the attack. He was charged with “assassination in a terrorist context” and then imprisoned. The attack on October 16 in Brussels, perpetrated with “an AR-15 type war weapon” according to the prosecution, killed two Swedes, a sixty-year-old and a seventy-year-old, who had come to support their national football team playing this evening. there against Belgium in Brussels. A third Swedish fan, aged 70, was also seriously injured.