Belgium shooter was on police watchlist for Islamist contacts

A gunman who shot and killed two police officers earlier today and seriously injured a third was on a watchlist because of his contacts with radical Islamists, a source close to the investigation tells AFP.

“He is suspected of having been radicalized [in prison]… He has been reported or presumed to [belong] to the entourage of an Islamist recruiter,” the source says on condition of anonymity.

— AFP

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