(AFP) A Paris judge has charged two men suspected of links with the Islamist gunman who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels this month, French anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.
Abdesalem Lassoued, a radicalised 45-year-old Tunisian, shot dead the fans before a Belgium-Sweden international football match on October 16 and was himself fatally shot in a police operation afterwards.
French prosecutors opened a formal investigation into a suspected “criminal terrorist conspiracy” after receiving information on the case from the Belgian judiciary.
A Paris judge on Monday charged the men with forming a terrorist criminal group and complicity in murder linked to a terrorist plot, France’s anti-terror prosecutor’s office said, adding that the men were placed in detention.
