Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described those behind the attack as ‘cowards’
Police officers onboard motorbikes stand guard outside the King Baudouin Stadium following the Euro 2024 qualifying football match between Belgium and Sweden in Brussels, after two Swedes were shot dead in an attack in Brussels. Photograph: Getty ImagesFrance is stepping up security at the Belgian border, the French interior minister said on Tuesday, after the killing of two people by an assailant in Brussels.person on Monday in what the Belgian prime minister called a brutal terrorist attack.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday morning, he said the night was meant to be “a wonderful soccer party” and said the victims had been “cut down by extreme brutality”. The Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden was suspended at halftime and subsequently abandoned following the fatal shooting of two Swedes in Brussels earlier on Monday, UEFA said.
Eric Van Duyse, spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, told reporters the investigation was centring on “a possible terrorist motivation for the shooting”.
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