BRAGGED: In a video published on Facebook, the alleged perpetrator bragged about having killed Swedes in the terrorist attack. Photo: Private
BRUSSELS (VG) Abdesalem Lassoued (45) was refused asylum in Norway in 2011.
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On Monday, he purposefully attacked Swedish football supporters with a machine gun.
Two Swedish men in their 60s and 70s lost their lives.
The Tunisian terrorist suspect Abdesalem Lassoued (45) has had a number of asylum applications to several European countries rejected.
The Directorate of Immigration (UDI) confirms to VG that Lassoued has also applied for asylum in Norway.
– We can confirm that the alleged perpetrator applied for asylum in Norway in June 2011. He was refused and was returned to Italy in November 2011, writes Director of Protection in UDI, Wenche Fone, in an e-mail to VG.
To apply for asylum in Norway, you must be in the country or at a Norwegian border.
PST has not changed the threat level in Norway after the terror in Brussel. The level is still at «moderatemoderateIt is possible that extreme Islamists or far-right extremists will try to carry out terrorist acts in Norway.».
– Everything indicates that this is a terrorist attack against Swedes and Swedish citizens, only because they are Swedish, said Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at a press conference on Tuesday.
Swedish police introduced a “national special event” this summer after several Koran burnings that caused outrage in the Islamic world.
The threat level in Sweden was raised and the external border control tightened.
Imprisoned in Sweden
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson stated at a press conference on Tuesday that the suspected terrorist has also stayed in Sweden. He did not specify when.
Sometime between 2012 and 2014, Lassoued was imprisoned in Sweden for drug offences. He stayed in the country illegally, according to the Migration Agency The evening paper.
The intelligence unit in the police in Dalarna is now also investigating the suspected terrorist’s links to Dalarna, writes Aftonbladet.
On Facebook, Lassoued liked «Police in Dalarna».
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Received notification in 2016
In November 2019, Lassoued applied for asylum in Belgium.
– In October 2020, he received a negative response to it. Shortly afterwards he disappeared from the radar, said State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Nicole de Moor.
In February 2021, he was struck off the population register in Belgium. The following Monday, he was ordered to leave the country.
In 2016, the Belgian authorities received the first notification that Lassoued had been radicalized from a foreign police. The message also stated that Lassoued had traveled to a conflict area for Jihad.
The information was not confirmed at the time, according to Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne. He also emphasizes that in 2016 there were tens of such messages a day.
The message was checked out by Belgian police.
– Our services were not aware of concrete evidence of radicalisation, therefore he did not look at the OCADOCAD List of extremists in Belgium. list, Van Quickenborne said.
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Published: 18.10.23 at 11:37
Updated: 18.10.23 at 11:48
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