Brussels suicide bombers named as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui

[snoop1130]

Brussels suicide bombers named as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui
Euronews

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -- The two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers known to the police and a third attacker, who is at large, is a known Paris attacks suspect, Belgian media said on Wednesday (March 23).

The suicide bombers were named as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui and the third man as Najim Laachraoui.

Federal prosecutors declined to comment, but said they would provide information in the course of the morning.

Laachraoui’s DNA had been found in houses used by the Paris attackers last year, prosecutors said on Monday, adding that he had traveled to Hungary in September with Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam.

Captured on a security camera photograph at Brussels Airport on Tuesday morning beside the El Bakraoui brothers, Laachraoui did not detonate a bomb and is still at large. A bomb was subsequently destroyed in a controlled explosion.

Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, had rented under a false name the flat in the Forest borough of the Belgian capital where police killed a gunman in a raid last week, RTBF said.

Belgian newspaper DH said the Bakraoui brothers may have fled the flat in Forest after last week’s shootout.

In the raid, investigators found an ISIL flag, an assault rifle, detonators and a fingerprint of Abdeslam, who was arrested three days later.

Both brothers have criminal records, but have not been linked by the police to Islamist militants until now, RTBF said.

Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

In 2011, his brother Khalid was given a sentence of five years for car jacking.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-23

[metisdead]

Not Thailand related, moved to the World News forum.

[Assurancetourix]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

[Thian]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Because of the left-wing judges in the EU. They feel more for criminals than for victims. We all are VERY tired of them and soon they will be kicked out i hope.

[Thorgal]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Sentence can be 9 years, with 5 years effective prisonment...

4 years will turn to effective if he committed the 'slightest' crime/offence during or after his prison time.

[Thian]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Sentence can be 9 years, with 5 years effective prisonment...

4 years will turn to effective if he committed the 'slightest' crime/offence during or after his prison time.

He even shot an AK-47 at a brokers office while he robbed it and only got a warning for that, no prisonment at all!!

[Steely Dan]

Were they actually suicide bombers, or were they intending to use AK47's to cause an even larger deathtoll but the gun jammed?

http://app.debka.com/p/article/25318/The-Brussels-airport-terrorists-were-not-suicide-bombers-A-jammed-gun-averted-a-mega-massacre

[Wilsonandson]

A year ago this mad man warned Belgium.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/belgian-isis-fighter-taunts-authorities-saying-he-slipped-out-of-country-like-knife-through-butter-9983534.html

[chilli42]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Belgian police must be the most tolerant in the world ... "firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer" ... why was he still alive for sentencing? Take a guess how that would have turned out had it happened in the US.

[Thorgal]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Belgian police must be the most tolerant in the world ... "firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer" ... why was he still alive for sentencing? Take a guess how that would have turned out had it happened in the US.

One of the terrorist brothers was arrested in Turkey and delivered to the Belgian authorities. Erdogan made a speech yesterday.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brussels-attack-terrorist-was-detained-by-turkey-belgium-warned-his-presence-erdogan-claims-1551302

He was released soon afterwards by Belgian authorities because he wasn't labeled for acts of terrorism. He was still recorded for Belgian justice for his hold-up and shooting to the police from 2010.

In fact he was sentenced for 9 years.

He was released after 4 years in 2014, and he didn't comply after his release to contact Belgian justice on regular times. A search warrant (not for terrorism, but for a civil court case) has been made in 2015 while he wasn't anymore in Belgium.

It's not a fictional story of Hercules Poirot.

[zaZa9]

Its high time the soft judges and weak parole boards that basically assisted these events were held accountable and charged with dereliction of duty and criminal liability.

Can you imagine any of us mere commoners having such negligence just shrugged off if we allowed such mayhem to be caused by our inaction?

In my country if you have a business that causes even one death , you can pretty much kiss it , and your comfortable lifestyle goodbye !!

And how men with violent criminal records can be allowed travel freely and enter other countries is beyond me.

[Steely Dan]

I worked in Brussels for three years back in the 90's. On my third day there a Dutch colleague asked me whether or not I had registered with the local authorities yet. I hadn't and my Dutch friend said thank God, save yourself days on end of aggravation and don't bother. His advice was to treat Belgium as a banana republic. Years subsequent culture enrichers broke into my apartment and I called the police, solely for the insurance claim. They asked to see my identity card, upon learning I didn't have one the merely told me where to register, there was no follow up. During my time in Brussels two friends were robbed at gunpoint and a girl I worked with had stones thrown at her by middle aged Moroccan men because she walked into their area alone and not wearing a bin liner. In all cases the abjectly defeatist police could barely be bothered to even take witness statements.

If I were a terrorist I could think of no better place to operate than Brussels in 1995, I guess not much has changed.

[wabothai]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Thanx to religious, political and judicial weakness and correctness. Let me be a racist.

[soc]

" Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. "

I'm not Nobel price of mathematics but 2010 + 9 = 2019 ;

Why does he was walking free in 2016 ?

Thanx to religious, political and judicial weakness and correctness. Let me be a racist.

l'm with you.

The word "racist" just bounces off my skin.

The PCI will have to try harder than that to insult me! lol