Man Who Stabbed Belgian Cop To Death Was On Terror Watchlist
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Investigators told reporters that the suspect "Yassine M.", who was born in Brussels in 1990, had shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- "God is greater" -- as he lunged at two officers in a patrol car on Thursday.
The knifeman who fatally stabbed a Brussels police officer before being shot and arrested was already on a watch list maintained by Belgium's terrorism monitoring agency, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Investigators told reporters that the suspect "Yassine M.", who was born in Brussels in 1990, had shouted "Allahu Akbar" -- "God is greater" -- as he lunged at two officers in a patrol car on Thursday.
One of the policemen, identified only as 29-year-old Thomas M., was stabbed in the throat and died shortly afterwards. The second 23-year-old officer has been operated on for wounds to the right arm and will survive.
The federal prosecutor has referred the case to an investigating magistrate as an alleged "murder and an attempted murder committed in a terrorist context".