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| One of the Islamic State suicide bombers that carried out a deadly terror attack in Brussels on March 22 had previously worked as a janitor in the European Parliament, a spokesman for the EU assembly said, according to Reuters. | One of the Islamic State suicide bombers that carried out a deadly terror attack in Brussels on March 22 had previously worked as a janitor in the European Parliament, a spokesman for the EU assembly said, according to Reuters. |
| The attacker, whose name was not mentioned, had the job from 2009 to 2010. | |
| He “worked for a period of one month for a cleaning company which was contracted by the European Parliament at the time,” spokesman Jaume Duch Guillot said in a statement. | |
| According to an EU official, the terrorist is Najim Laachraoui, 25, who, according to prosecutors, blew himself up in Belgian airport. | |
| He is also suspected of preparing suicide vests used by other suicide bombers during November’s Paris attacks that left 130 people dead. | |
| The three attacks, which occurred in the city’s Maalbeek metro station and in the airport in Zaventem, killed 35 people, including three suspected suicide bombers. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. | |
| Laachraoui reportedly had a clean criminal record when he applied for the temporary job in the parliament, the spokesman noted. | |
| Three of the four attackers have already been identified as the brothers Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, born in Brussels, and Laachraoui, a Belgian citizen. The fourth attacker is still being searched for by police. |