(Brussels Times) The deradicalisation centre for the support and care of anyone affected by violent extremism and radicalism (Caprev), which followed up on the suspect of the knife attack — Yassine M. — that killed one police officer and gravely injured another last Thursday, wanted to close his file and hand him over to psychiatric care.
Between 2013 and 2019, M. was in prison after several thefts and robberies involving violence, and was also placed on the OCAD (the organisation responsible for threat analysis in Belgium) list as a “potentially violent extremist,” which is why he was transferred to the prison’s deradicalisation (“deradex”) wing, VRT reports.
After serving his sentence, he was further monitored by various deradicalisation services of the City of Brussels and the French community.
