Brussels terror attack: Three in court on Friday in connection with lethal firearms

(Brussels Times) Three individuals suspected of involvement in a terror attack in the capital last month are appearing before the Brussels Chambers on Friday, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.

The three individuals were placed under arrest following five house searches in Ninove, Saint-Josse-ten-Node, and Ixelles on Monday. The three people who appeared before the chambers were associated with the weapons possessed by the perpetrator of the attack, Abdesalem Lassoued.

Lassoued used an AR-15 automatic rifle in the attack but also had two small arms and while he had the automatic rifle with him when he was shot in Schaerbeek, he had hidden the small arms in the vicinity of his home shortly after the attack.

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