Smail Farisi was the man who originally rented the apartment in Etterbeek where Ossama Krayem and Khalid El Bakraoui were hiding in order to collect social welfare benefits, although he still lived with his parents, and to be able to hang out with his girlfriend. to agree . He lent it to Khalid El Bakraoui at his request. After the attack on March 22, Smail Farisi and his brother Ibrahim emptied the flat and cleaned it from head to toe.
Both brothers had been placed under arrest warrants in the course of the investigation into the attacks, but were the only ones released. The federal prosecutor’s office had asked to go to the criminal court, but both the council chamber and the indictment chamber decided that she, like the eight other suspects in the file, must stand before the assize court.
The introductory hearing for the trial of the attacks will take place before the Assien Court on Monday. To each other, the federal park had decided to have both brothers arrested. Smail Farisi was arrested on Wednesday, but that was not the case for his brother Ibrahim. On Thursday evening, the man and his lawyer, master Xavier Carrette, joined the federal police in Brussels on Thursday. He was meant to go to the prison of Leuze-en-Hainaut.
Master Carrette has already announced that he will submit a request for release, which would then be submitted by the assien court on Monday.