🇧🇪 Belgian terrorist Abdeslam Lassoued was a Tunisian and was living in the country illegally, Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said, reports the Associated Press.

In 2019, his application for asylum was denied, the Minister of Justice added.

The police knew about him; he was suspected of involvement in human trafficking and a threat to state security.

The man held radical views and planned to go abroad to participate in the “holy war.”

However, the local prosecutor's office does not believe that his attack on football fans is connected with the war between Israel and Hamas.

He called himself a member of ISIS and said that he killed “infidels.” Two people died.

According to the latest information, the suspect resisted arrest in the cafe, received a gunshot wound to the chest and was hospitalized.