Attack in Brussels: Belgian justice minister resigns. It did not extradite the attacker to Tunisia
According to information from Libération, the Belgian Minister of Justice, Vincent Van Quickenborne, has chosen to resign following the terrorist attack perpetrated in Brussels on Monday 16 October by a radicalized Tunisian illegally present in the territory. “It is an individual fault, monumental and unacceptable,” he said on Friday 20 October evening.
The reason: the minister explained that he learned on Friday that Tunisia had requested the extradition of the perpetrator of the attack, Abdesalem Lassoued, in August 2022. A request which was then not taken into consideration by the Ministry of Justice, thus allowing the immigrant to remain on Belgian territory undisturbed both on the day of the attack. Faced with this observation, Vincent Van Quickenborne decided to take responsibility and resigned.
This is a more unique than rare case in Europe of a public official, a minister, who takes responsibility for the inefficiency of his ministry and resigns. If the example of resigning in the face of one's mistakes was also followed by the judiciary, we would renew the judicial order every 24 months.
Abdesalem Lassoued was an individual already known to the Belgian authorities for some crimes, including death threats made to an asylum seeker, as confirmed by the courts. However, it was not included in the OCAM database, the federal agency responsible for analyzing the terrorist threat. After the attack, which caused two deaths (two Swedes), Vincent Van Quickenborne simply revealed that Belgium had been informed in 2016 by a foreign police service of Abdesalem Lassoued's radicalized profile, without there being any mention of a terrorist precedent . Before seeking asylum in Belgium, where he claimed to have arrived in late 2015, the Tunisian had made similar requests in Norway, Sweden and then Italy, but each of these requests had been rejected.
Marine Le Pen calls for the resignation of French Interior Minister Darmanin
This morning, sources close to the case announced that an individual was arrested in Nantes on Thursday and that the arrest was linked to the investigation opened in Belgium. The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) said on Friday evening that it had launched an investigation into a terrorist criminal association, in response to information transmitted by Belgian judicial authorities regarding this attack.
Marine Le Pen, president of the RN group in the National Assembly, on her way to the North, in Hénin-Beaumont, on Sunday 15 October, spoke after the attack in Arras. He then encouraged the Minister of the Interior , Gérald Darmanin, to assume his responsibilities. According to her, he should resign.
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