Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he shot three Swedish men this week, killing two of them.
Floral tributes, a Swedish team jersey, and notes of condolence are placed on the pavement and a sign reads 'courage to the Swedish people' during a commemoration for the victims of a shooting in the center of Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Police in Belgium on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen attack on a Brussels street.
“It’s important that those individuals that could be a security threat to our citizens, to our Union, have to be returned forcefully, immediately,” EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told reporters on Thursday, as EU interior ministers met in Luxembourg. Belgium’s top migration official, Nicole de Moor, said that countries refusing to take back their nationals must be made to cooperate.
The shooter Lassoued’s case was also marked by other failures. He applied for asylum in Belgium in 2019. His application was rejected a year later, and a deportation order was issued in 2021. Officials said this week that he couldn’t be found, as they had no address for him. “We need to improve the information exchange on these kinds of things. The man apparently arrived in Italy in 2011 wandered around Europe for 12 years,” she said. Migration services and the police must share information, she said, “to ensure that this cannot happen.”
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