In pictures from the shooting in Brussels, a man in an orange jacket and white motorcycle helmet can be seen getting off a scooter and opening fire.
A video of a man dressed in similar clothes was published on social media during the evening. In the video, the man speaks Arabic. He claims to belong to the terrorist movement IS and to be looking for “revenge on Muslims”.
The Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws writes that the suspected perpetrator is from Tunisia and lives in Schaerbeek in Brussels. The district is known because many of the IS fighters who were radicalized in Belgium and later traveled to Syria came from there. According to the newspaper, the man must also have been radicalized.
Not confirmed that the perpetrator is seen in the video
TV4 Nyheterna has not been able to confirm that it is the suspected perpetrator who is seen on the film.
According to Hans Brun, Belgium is one of the countries in Europe where there is the highest risk of terrorist acts.
– It is one of the countries, along with France, that has the biggest problem with jihadist terrorism, which this person seems to want to be associated with. The fact that something like this happens in Brussels is not unexpected, he says to Nyhetsbyrån TT.
– They have had similar attacks in the past, carried out by lone actors against different targets.
Had liked the Police in Dalarna on Facebook
The Facebook page that may be connected to the suspected perpetrator was shut down at 9 p.m. On Facebook, among other things, he had liked the Police in Dalarna. According to Het Laatste Nieuws, even an account on Tiktok can be linked to the suspect. There he follows a large account that has several times spread conspiracy theories about Sweden and that Swedish social services would kidnap Muslim children.
A common theme among Islamist sites and something that, according to Säpo, has contributed to an increased threat of attacks against Sweden in the so-called LVU campaign in recent years.
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