Attacks of November 13: the graves of three attackers briefly identified on a map of the cemetery in Brussels

The location of the graves of three members of the commandos of the attacks perpetrated on November 13, 2015 in Paris, buried in Brussels, could be located for a few days on a database, before this "error" was rectified, has t - we learned Monday from the cemetery.

The graves of two suicide bombers - Brahim Abdeslam, brother of Salah, and Bilal Hadfi - as well as that of Chakib Akrouh, who blew himself up on November 18 during the police assault in Saint-Denis in the Paris suburbs, have been anonymized. to avoid possible incidents or that they become places of meditation, at the multiconfessional cemetery of Brussels.

But to avoid queues for visitors to search for the burial of a loved one, the cemetery keeper recently put a database online to help locate them.

"Nothing ever happened"

“I wanted to be of service to the population.

When I realized that I had made a mistake (by forgetting to remove the graves of the three jihadists), it was rectified within two hours, ”Ludo Beckers told AFP, when asked about this information from the French-speaking public radio and television RTBF.

According to him, the database containing the error was put online "two / three days maximum" before the correction made at the end of last week.

He insisted that the cemetery had not been the scene of any incident since the three men were buried there, and not more during the short period when their names were visible.

“Nothing ever happened,” Beckers said.

Twenty men, including Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the commandos, have been on trial since last Wednesday before the Special Assize Court in Paris for these attacks which left 130 dead on November 13, 2015, claimed by the Islamic State group.