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Brussels Bomber Khalid El Bakraoui Used ID of Ex-Inter Player Ibrahim Maaroufi

Suicide bomber Khalid El Bakraoui, who detonated explosives at Maelbeek metro station in Brussels as part of the coordinated terror attacks on the Belgian city last week, reportedly used the identity of former Inter Milan player Ibrahim Maaroufi in order to get into the country.

According to Belgian authorities, El Bakraoui travelled to Italy, then Greece and finally Belgium using Maaroufi's identity and rented a flat "where a terrorist cell is believed to have planned last November’s Paris attacks," per Sky TG24 (via Lorenzo Bettoni of Calciomercato).

No evidence has emerged linking Maaroufi to the attacks that killed 35 people on the metro system and at Brussels' airport.