What is known about the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks in the Brussels airport – BBC

The police established the identity of the suspects in the bombing at the Brussels airport, whose photos were circulated yesterday. The picture spread around the Internet, but until now their identity remained unknown

On Wednesday, local media reported that men with trolleys at Brussels airport -. Are citizens of Belgium, the brothers Ibrahim and Khaled Bakravi (28 and 30 years respectively) . According to Belgian television channel RTBF source in the police, they made a suicide bombing near an American Airlines desk.

The brothers have long been known to the police, and, moreover, they have already written about the Belgian media. In 2010, Ibrahim was found guilty of using violence to the police: during a robbery he shot at law enforcement officers from “Kalashnikov” machine. The young man was sentenced to nine years, but released early. His older brother Khaled was also sentenced in absentia to five years for stealing a car in 2011.

It is also known that Khaled rented under a false name for sale in La Foret on the street Driss, where a few days ago there was a skirmish between the police and several men suspected of terrorism. The incident occurred during the search, which took place in the investigation of terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 last year. The operation was conducted in collaboration with the French police. Then the criminals managed to escape across the rooftops.

The third suspect in yesterday’s terrorist attack in Brussels proved Najim Laashraui. Immediately after the explosion, he left the scene of the crime and managed to hide from law enforcement. The terrorist was detained on Wednesday morning – that is, almost a day after the attack. It Najim Laashraui was previously declared wanted together with the organizer of the terrorist attacks in the French capital Salah Abdesalamom detained during a special operation on March 18.

Meanwhile, local newspaper La Derniere Heure wrote that the Brussels police were able to find the explosives at the airport and in an apartment in the commune Skarbek thanks to the information the taxi driver who picked up the terrorists at the airport.

After learning about the perpetrators of the mass media, he immediately contacted the police and reported, among other things, that his passengers was driven not three bags, as the surveillance cameras and more. These testimonies and helped law enforcement agencies to find unexploded bomb at the airport of Brussels

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in addition, the taxi driver said the address of the house in the Brussels commune Skarbek, near which he took clients. He said that passengers would like to take a more bags, but the place was not in the car. During searches at the address was found an explosive device, packed with nails, as well as the chemicals and the flag of the terrorist group “Islamic State” (banned in Russia).

It is necessary to add that belt that detonated suicide bombers during the attacks on November 13 in Paris, they were also manufactured in one of the apartments Skarbek commune. According to investigators, there was hiding on the wanted list of the Paris terrorist attacks Salah Abdesalam. “Workshop of death” found another 9 December last year, during the searches, the same traces of explosives were found, three hand-sewn belts for explosives and found prints

Abdesalama fingers. Thus, all indications are that the Belgian terrorists were directly connected with Paris, but officially it is not yet confirmed: Tuesday, Interior Minister of Belgium Jan Yambon and federal prosecutor of Belgium Frédéric Van Leo in numerous television appearances have repeatedly stated that police “have not yet established a link between the explosion at the airport and deed Abdesalama “. In addition, as they say French media, Yambon believes that the terrorists want to destabilize society

On March 22, in Brussels took place three explosions:. Two and one at the airport on the subway. Responsibility for the bombings has assumed a terrorist organization “Islamic State.” On Tuesday, the crisis center to confirm the number of dead and said that the explosions in the capital killed 31 people, another 250 were injured

European officials continue to respond to the incident:. So that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the need to tighten control over the borders of the EU; The European Commission is considering the possibility to introduce controls at the entrances to the airport; German authorities tightened security at the borders with Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Luxembourg after the explosions in Brussels.

Over the ocean, also took into account what has happened in the capital of Belgium. The administration of President Barack Obama has already stated his intention to announce new measures to strengthen security at US airports following the terrorist attacks in Brussels. Obama himself made an appeal, in which he noted that the people of the world should be, regardless of nationality, race and religion, to unite against terrorism.