A stabbing attack happened on 10 November 2022 in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Belgium, killing a police officer and injuring another. Authorities suspect the attack to be terror-related. The attacker shouted the Arabic phrase " Allahu Akbar" while committing the stabbing.

Background

During the late 20th and early 21st century, bombing and stabbing attacks have been carried out in Brussels, including those in

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Incident

At around 18:15 (GMT) close to the city's

Brussels-North railway station Brussels-North railway station (french: Gare de Bruxelles-Nord, nl, Station Brussel-Noord), officially Brussels-North (french: Bruxelles-Nord, link=no, nl, Brussel-Noord, link=no), is one of the three major railway stations in Brussels, Bel ...

, two officers were stabbed before the attacker was shot in the legs and abdomen by another police patrol arriving at the scene. One of the police officers died after being stabbed in the neck. The other wounded officer as well as the attacker were hospitalised.

Suspect

The suspect is a 32-year-old Belgian- Moroccan named Yassine Mahi, who was born and domiciled in

. He was known to the Belgian security authorities and appeared on a list of

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Muslims. In the morning on the same day the stabbing incident happened, he made threats against the police on a police station. Despite the threats he was not arrested but instead brought by the police to the psychiatric unit of the Saint-Luc hospital, where he stayed voluntarily for psychiatric treatment. There he was able to leave the hospital. The police checked the criteria for psychiatric surveillance, but because he voluntarily went to psychiatric treatment, the legal criteria was not given.

References

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