(AFP) Spanish police said Friday that they had arrested a man suspected of having links with an Islamist gunman who killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels this month.
Officers arrested the unidentified suspect — who is wanted in Belgium for drug and arms trafficking, money laundering and membership in a criminal group — in the southern town of Benahavis, an operation carried out with the help of Spanish intelligence agency CNI, police said in a statement.
A radicalised 45-year-old Tunisian, Abdesalem Lassoued, shot and killed the Swedish fans before a Belgium-Sweden football match on October 16, and was later killed in a police operation.
