The man who killed two Swedish people on Monday night was slain by police in Brussels.
In the Schaerbeek neighborhood, a café shot and killed 45-year-old Abdesalem Lassoued.
The automatic rifle attack on Monday resulted in the deaths of two Swedes and the injury of a third.
It happened on Boulevard d’Ypres, five kilometers (three miles) from the stadium where Belgium was playing Sweden to earn a spot in the 2024 Euro football championship.
Since then, Brussels has been on the highest level of terror alert.
The shooter is thought to be a guy of Tunisian descent who entered Belgium illegally after having his application for asylum denied.
The prosecutor’s office thinks he was influenced by the Islamic State Group because he put a video online in which he claimed to have slain people in the name of God.
The automatic rifle that was recovered on him, according to Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden, was the same one that was used in the attack on Monday, according to Flemish public television VRT.
After the double shooting in Brussels, “Europe is shaken.”
In a news conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described the shooting from Monday as “a harrowing act of terrorism.”
According to the case’s prosecutor, the victims’ Swedish ethnicity was most likely the driving force for the crime.
“Perpetrators, they try to sow discord and distrust in our free societies,” declared Mr. De Croo. Terrorism. The terrorists must realize that their objectives will always fail.
A football match between Belgium and Sweden that was taking place in the city was called off.
Because the shooter, who looked to be carrying an assault rifle, is still at large, Brussels is on its highest level of terror alert.
While in Albania, French President Emmanuel Macron declared: “Europe has been shaken.”
The shooting on Boulevard d’Ypres, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the King Baudoin Stadium, allegedly sparked a terrorism investigation, according to federal authorities.
The public was asked to “go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated,” according to Eric van Duyse, the prosecutor’s spokesman.
He claimed that a man posing as the attacker claimed that the Islamic State organization had motivated him in a video posted on social media.
In a video, a man speaking Arabic claims to have killed three people while carrying out the act in the cause of God.
Police are reportedly verifying the video and other ones posted during the attack, the BBC has been informed.
A man in a neon jacket steps off a scooter while brandishing what seems to be an assault rifle, according to a social media video shared by the daily Het Laatste Nieuws on Monday but unconfirmed by BBC News. He then enters a nearby glass-fronted business.
Then, he seems to shoot at least one victim.
Following the incident, which occurred at about 19:00 (17:00 GMT), police and emergency services closed off neighboring roadways.
The two victims, according to Belgian media agencies, were sporting Swedish football jerseys.
According to Swedish network TV6, the Belgian team consented after Swedish players informed Uefa that they did not want to participate in the second half of the game.
Alexander de Croo, the prime minister of Belgium, expressed his “sincere condolences to the Swedish PM following tonight’s horrific attack on Swedish citizens in Brussels” on social media.
“Our thoughts are with the families and friends who lost their loved ones,” he stated. “As close partners the fight against terrorism is a joint one.”
On social media, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen expressed her sympathies “with the families of the two victims of the despicable attack in Brussels.”
“I extend my heartfelt support to the Belgian police, so they swiftly apprehend the suspect,” she said. “Together, we stand united against terror.”