(Brussels Times) A police officer in Brussels has been jailed for four years after prosecutors found he had acted as an informant for the brother of a man seen as the mastermind of the Brussels and Paris attacks.
The 53-year-old officer with the Brussels North police zone was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment, his lawyers confirmed on Friday.
Prosecutors concluded that the officer had shared confidential information on ongoing investigations, namely terror-related ones, with the brother of Oussama Atar.
Believed to have died in Syria in 2017, Atar has been identified as the brains of the cross-border terror cell that carried out the attacks that bloodied Brussels and Paris in 2016 and 2015, respectively.
