Over 35,000 fans were kept inside King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Monday as a precaution while an attacker at a Belgium-Sweden soccer match was at large. Two fatalities were men aged in their sixties and seventies while the suspect, a suspected Tunisian extremist, was shot dead by police.
Police on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of gunning down two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen assault on a Brussels street that sent shockwaves through Belgium and Sweden.
Amateur videos posted on social media of Monday's attack showed a man wearing an orange fluorescent vest pull up on a scooter, take out a large weapon and open fire on people getting out of a taxi. He chased them into a building to gun them down. He was also filmed calmly loading his weapon as cars drove slowly by.
"The attack that was launched yesterday was committed with total cowardice," he said. Security was beefed up in Brussels, particularly around places linked to the Swedish community, and at Belgium's southern border with France. At a news conference in Stockholm, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that "everything indicates this is a terrorist attack against Sweden and Swedish citizens, just because they are Swedish." He said the suspect had occasionally stayed in Sweden but was not on police files there.
De Croo said the assailant was a Tunisian man living illegally in Belgium who used a military weapon in the attack. The suspect is alleged to have said in the video that, for him, the Quran was "a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself."
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