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A former Belgian soldier died after blowing himself up with a grenade on a deserted football field in Verviers, eastern Belgium, on Tuesday, municipal authorities and the local public prosecutor said. [19659002"Theindividualwhoseidentityisnotyetknownblewhimselfupinthemiddleofthefootballfieldaround8:30amHewasaloneinthemiddleofthefield"saidadeputymayor(mayor)ofVerviersHasanAydincontactedbyphoneTheexplosiondidnotcauseanothervictim"Thetrailofsuicideseemsforthemomentprivilegedbecauseifhehadwantedtomakevictimshewouldhavegonetoanotherplaceatanothertime"addedtheelectedmunicipal
A man aged 65. Farewell letters and last wishes were discovered at the man's home, a 65-year-old former professional soldier, according to the Verviers public prosecutor's office. "A witness contacted the police (…) on Tuesday morning to report that he saw a lone man head to the center of the football field, heard a few moments later the sound of an explosion and to have found that this man blew himself up, "the local prosecutor said in a statement. After the intervention of the police and the mine-clearing service, "the medical examiner noted that the death was due to the explosion of a grenade and that no third intervention was to be noted," said the statement . No other explosives were found.
A jihadist cell dismantled in 2015. The federal prosecutor's office, responsible for terrorist cases in Belgium, had not been seized of this case. Verviers had made headlines in January 15, 2015, when a jihadist cell was dismantled in a house in the city, a week after the attack against Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The commando had three young people from Syria. Two of them were killed after firing at the police officers who arrested them. A third, wounded, was arrested. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, considered as one of the organizers of the bloody attacks that hit Paris (November 2015) and Brussels (March 2016), claimed by the Islamic State group (IS), is suspected of having supervised the Verviers cell from Greece .
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