A man who escaped from Brussels’ Saint-Gilles prison in March 2020 was arrested in the African country of Guinea last week, the federal police said in a press release on Friday.
Al, a 27-year-old Belgian-Moroccan national, who is well known to Belgian police, was convicted in Belgium on four occasions for armed robbery. He received 21 years in prison. Escaping the prison over two years ago, the career criminal was quick to reoffend.
In May 2021, he allegedly participated in an armed robbery on an armoured van north of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
After years on the run, the Belgian team specialising in the hunt for escaped fugitives, the Fugitive Active Search Team (FAST), and the Federal police have now discovered the escapee in Guinea.
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Al was arrested on 16 December by Guinean judicial police, the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ), in the Guinean capital of Conakry, while the criminal was attending a nightclub.
Belgian authorities have requested his extradition.
