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Brussels attack. A cold, determined man (Shift)

(BRUSSELS2) The first images released publicly by the Belgian federal police on the author of the attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels, this Saturday (May 24) show a determined, calm man. He enters the corridor that leads to the Jewish Museum, which is located near the Place des Sablons - one of the places most frequented by tourists - and which is undeniably targeted. There's no hazard.

The man has already killed two people who are lying near the entrance. He takes the gun out of his bag, of the Kalashnikov type (according to the police), unfolds the butt, shoots, folds it all up, into his bag, picks up his second bag which is next to him, and leaves. a supple, rapid, but calm step. He takes " the flight on foot towards rue des Chandeliers towards rue Haute in the Marolles district “says the police” where he was lost sight of". A very professional attitude.

The operation lasted a few tens of seconds and seemed carefully prepared. There was a certain risk, being in a dead end corridor, that people, passers-by, would come to visit the museum, or just take a look out of curiosity.

NB: This is the first attack in Belgium of this magnitude in almost 25 years (the other attacks took place in the 1970s in Brussels and in the 1980s in Antwerp), which as such targets the Jewish community. One cannot help thinking of the attack on rue des Rosiers in Paris in August 1982 or, more recently, of the series of attacks committed by Mohamed Merrah.

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)

(Updated) The attack finally left 4 dead: 2 Israelis, a French woman and a Belgian transported between life and death to the hospital died on Friday (June 6). The author, Mehdi Nemmouche, was arrested in Marseilles on May 30 when he arrived on a bus from Amsterdam but had stopped in Brussels. He was extradited on July 29 to Belgium but he remained silent, at first, in front of the police, according to the RTBF.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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