https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/brussels-football-match-gunman-had-escaped-from-tunisian-prison
Tunisia had applied for extradition of Islamist gunman who shot dead two football fans but file got forgotten
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The justice minister, Vincent Van Quickenborne, resigned on Friday over what he called a “monumental error”.
The Belgian capital’s chief prosecutor, Tim De Wolf, offered an explanation to the press on Sunday.
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The interior minister, Annelies Verlinden, said on Saturday that a lack of detail in the first “red notice” from Interpol meant the dossier had not been handled immediately.
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The shootings of the two Swedish fans on Monday, just before the start of a Belgium-Sweden international football match, have renewed debate in Belgium over judicial and administrative errors in following up on radicalised persons, particularly by the immigration services, though Lassoued was not on the authorities’ radar.
Official documents showed that Lassoued had lodged asylum applications in Norway, Sweden, Italy and Belgium.
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Over the weekend the government announced that more staff would be deployed for the prosecutor’s office and the federal police in Brussels.
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