Armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a handgun, a man claiming to be Islamic State (Daesh) and wanting to “avenge Muslims” killed two people, Swedes, and injured two others in the center of the Belgian capital.
According to a video posted on social networks, whose authenticity was confirmed by the Belgian authorities, the man claimed the attack, according to his accent, he would be Tunisian.
Indeed, the killer, always dressed in his orange jacket, posted the video on social networks in which he affirms, face camera, in Arabic with the Tunisian accent, that he claims to be of the Islamic State (Daesh) and that “lives and dies for his religion”, confirms the point. In the video, he presents himself as “Mohamed Abdessalam Meftah Lassoued”, a name also of Tunisian origin.
According to our colleagues from Sudinfo, “the man would have shouted” Allahu Akbar “and would have pulled all rounds going down from his scooter with a weapon of war of the Kalashnikov type, testify to certain people.
