Two attacks shock Brussels/ Albanian executed near the European Parliament, after him a policeman is killed! The perpetrators are the same

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Two attacks shock Brussels/ Albanian executed near the European Parliament,

The perpetrators of the murder of Belgian police officer Nordine El Talbi, 41, are suspected of having carried out another execution just hours earlier, this time against an Albanian citizen in the Elsene neighborhood of Brussels. According to the Belgian newspaper “De Standaard”, investigators are now convinced that both criminal acts were committed by the same people.

The first incident occurred on Monday, October 12, at around 5:50 PM, on Wiertz Street, in the Elsene neighborhood, in the heart of the European area of ​​Brussels and near the European Parliament.

The perpetrators shot an Albanian man several times inside the entrance hall of a residential building. Despite the intervention of emergency services, the victim died at the scene.

The attack took place in the afternoon, when there was still light and there were many people moving around in the area. This is an area where many employees of European institutions also live.

According to the investigation, the Albanian was shot with seven or eight pistol bullets, which hit him in the chest. After the assassination, three or four people quickly fled the scene.

The victim did not appear to have a criminal record in Belgium. However, according to sources cited by Belgian media, suspicions are that the murder is related to drug dealing and that the event has the characteristics of a contract killing.

Initially, after the murder of police officer Nordine El Talbi, the Brussels Prosecutor's Office stated that there did not appear to be a connection between the two attacks. However, further investigations, particularly the analysis of security camera footage, have led to an important development. Investigators now believe that the same perpetrators are behind both murders. The Prosecutor's Office has not officially confirmed this connection.

How was police officer Nordine El Talbi killed?

A few hours after the murder of the Albanian, Nordine El Talbi and his colleagues from the Brussels Police's anti-robbery unit began searching for a Volkswagen T-Cross vehicle.

The car had been stolen earlier on the evening of October 12, during a carjacking in Tubize, a town south of Brussels.

Around midnight, police officers located the vehicle on Carton de Wiart Boulevard, in the Jette neighborhood of Brussels.

When police officer El Talbi approached the vehicle on foot to verify the situation, the people inside opened fire on him. A bullet hit him in the head, killing him.

According to Brussels prosecutor Julien Moinil, there were five people in the vehicle and one of them fired the fatal shot at the officer.

After the murder, the perpetrators abandoned three short firearms next to the vehicle, on the sidewalk, and fled on foot.

Four suspects extradited to Belgium

After the two assassinations, the suspected perpetrators fled the country to avoid justice.

Less than a week after the events, police arrested three of them in Almeria, Spain, where they were suspected of traveling towards Morocco. Another suspect was arrested at a train station in Paris.

One of the four people is a minor. Foreign authorities have completed the procedures and all four suspects have been extradited to Belgium, where they will face investigations and court proceedings.

Meanwhile, immediately after the shooting, police arrested two other people in Brussels suspected of involvement in the events.

One of them was released by decision of the court's advisory chamber, due to the lack of sufficient evidence against him, while the other remains in detention.

According to authorities, the suspects are residents of Brussels and are known to be connected to drug trafficking circles. The prosecution also announced that during the investigation, a significant amount of narcotics was found in the stolen Volkswagen T-Cross vehicle.

Investigations continue to uncover the motive for the attacks.

Despite the arrests and extradition of the four suspects, the motives and circumstances of the two murders have not yet been fully clarified.

So far, investigators have reconstructed this chronology: first the Albanian citizen was executed in Elsene, then the perpetrators violently robbed the vehicle in Tubize and, a few hours later, killed police officer Nordine El Talbi in Jette.

Investigations continue to determine the role of each of the suspects, the motive for the Albanian's murder, and the exact connection between the two assassinations.


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