The first video material is from 19.15 on Monday evening.
On a street in the Sainctelette square in central Brussels, a man in an orange jacket and white helmet stands loading an automatic weapon. He stands on the sidewalk partially hidden behind a car and is filmed from above on the same side of the street.
He picks up the automatic weapon and fires shots at a taxi. Then he gets on a moped and rides closer to the square – where he fires several shots and people are seen running away.
The man seen in the video is suspected to be 45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued, who occasionally resides and has been in prison in Sweden.
Shoots three at the square
According to the Belgian public service company VRT News the man follows the taxi for a short distance and fires shots at the passengers when it stops at an intersection. A Swedish man in the taxi dies, the other man can be revived later by police who arrive at the scene.
The perpetrator then follows another Swedish man into the entrance of a glass building and murders him in cold blood.
Everything happens in a few minutes – just an hour or so before the Sweden match.
Begins a hunt for the terrorist
Then the perpetrator gets back on the moped and leaves the square.
At 19.35 he posts a video where he says that he murdered three Swedes to “get revenge on Muslims”.
At 20.45 the Sweden match against Belgium begins. At 9 p.m., the terror threat level in Brussels is raised to the highest level. A large police hunt begins in Brussels at the same time as the Swedish fans present at the match are housed in the arena.
On the morning of October 17, the suspected perpetrator was shot dead by Belgian police in a cafe in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels. Later in the morning, the country’s interior minister confirms that it was the suspected perpetrator who was shot.