(Brussels Times) In the investigation into the terrorist attack in which two Swedish nationals were killed in Brussels in October 2023, the Italian anti-terrorist police carried out searches targeting 18 people on Tuesday.
The operation concerned “18 people of North African origin” living in the Italian cities of Bologna, Palermo, Rome and Turin, according to a press release by the anti-terrorist department of the Bologna Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The searches were part of the investigations carried out by the Belgian police and the EU’s police agency Europol, following the terrorist attack by Abdesalem Lassoued, a 45-year-old Tunisian man, who killed two Swedes who had come to Belgium to support their national football team on 16 October. Lassoued was shot dead by Belgian police the following day.
