Brussels attacker appeared to have IS sympathies: prosecutor

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AFP Brussels
Last Updated : Jun 21 2017 | 10:22 PM IST
Belgian authorities found signs today that the Brussels train station attacker supported the Islamic State group, and discovered explosives at his home, prosecutors said.
The 36-year-old Moroccan national identified only by the initials O.Z. Was shot dead by a soldier at Brussels Central station yesterday after trying to detonate a nail bomb.
"The preliminary results of the search carried out in the residence of the suspect O.Z. In Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, showed that he probably made the bomb there," Belgian federal prosecutor's spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said in a statement.
"Both possible chemical substances and materials were found that could serve to make explosives," he said.
"There are also indications that the suspect had sympathies for the terrorist organization IS."
The largely immigrant Brussels district of Molenbeek has been linked to a series of terror plots including the 2015 Paris and 2016 Brussels attacks.

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First Published: Jun 21 2017 | 10:22 PM IST

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