Two suicide bombers involved in the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016 allegedly committed a random murder in 2014 to test what it’s like to kill someone, according to research by the Belgian newspaper on Thursday. The morning. The cold case surrounding the death of the victim, 76-year-old Paul-André Vanderperren, could only be resolved last year.
The two brothers, Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, are said to have committed the murder of Vanderperren on December 14, 2014. A year and a half later, Khalid blew himself up in the metro in Maelbeek and Ibrahim at Zaventem airport.
The murder of Vanderperren was a mystery to the Belgian police. For years, the police were in the dark about the motive for the murder of the man, who was described as “nice” and “someone without problems”. Vanderperren was shot a few dozen meters from his home in Jette, near Brussels.
The interrogations of Osama Krayem, who was involved in the Brussels attacks, would have revealed information about Vanderperren’s death. On December 20, 2016, Krayem stated that Khalid told him that he and his brother shot someone in the street.
In a later interview, Krayem said, “Khalid explained to me that he was an elderly person and that they wanted to test what it was like to kill someone.”
Widow Vanderperren heard about the alleged perpetrators last year
When the link between the brothers and the cold case becomes clear, the Brussels public prosecutor’s office will transfer the investigation to the federal public prosecutor’s office. The federal prosecutor’s office wanted to ask questions from The morning about the content of the research.
The widow of the victim tells the newspaper that a year ago she was told through her lawyer that the brothers are “almost certainly” responsible for the murder of her husband. Because both perpetrators are deceased, the investigation into the murder of her husband ended in a so-called extra-prosecution.
The attacks in Brussels on 22 March 2016 killed 32 people and injured 340 people. Three terrorists were killed that day.
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