An investigating judge was seized of an investigation for “assassination and attempted assassination committed in a terrorist context”.
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The man suspected of having stabbed a policeman to death on Thursday November 10 in Brussels (Belgium) is a former detainee for common law offenses, but who was on file with the Belgian body for the analysis of the terrorist threat (Ocam) , the federal prosecutor’s office announced on Friday.
This suspect, presented as “Yassine M., born in 1990 in Brussels, of Belgian nationality”shouted “God is great” by attacking armed with a knife two police officers in their car stopped at a red light, specified the course. An investigating judge was seized of an investigation for “assassination and attempted assassination committed in a terrorist context”.
In particular, the investigation will have to look into the possible psychiatric history of the suspect. The Brussels prosecutor, Tim De Wolf, said that on Thursday morning Yassine M. presented himself at a Brussels police station “by making incoherent remarks”.
One of the two police officers, Thomas M., 29, hit “at the height of the throat” did not survive, while the other, wounded in the right arm, “was operated on last night” and “seems out of danger”, underlined the federal prosecutor’s office during a press conference. The suspect, the target of shots during the intervention of another police patrol called in for reinforcement, was “shot wound” and hospitalized.