(Brussels Times) Today marks one year since the terror attacks which killed two Swedish football fans in Brussels.
On 16 October 2023, Tunisian national Abdesalem Lassoued shot and killed two Swedish football fans who were in Brussels to attend a match at the King Baudouin Stadium.
Lassoued targeted the men as they exited a taxi on Boulevard d’Ypres near Place Sainctelette in the city centre: just a 20-minute walk from Grand Place. He chased the two victims into the lobby of a building and shot them dead, then returned to the street and fired at several cars. He then fled the scene on a scooter. A third Swedish man in his 70s was seriously injured, and the taxi driver now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
