[3] In January 2010, he was involved in the attempted robbery of a currency exchange office, where he shot at police with a Kalashnikov rifle while providing a lookout for his accomplices.

[1] According to the authorities in Turkey, they arrested El Bakraoui as a "suspected terrorist" in June 2015 and deported him to Europe, where he chose to go to the Netherlands.

[6] Belgian authorities were informed of the detention and deportation, but they apparently ignored the warnings, and the Netherlands released El Bakraoui after failing to establish any link to terrorism.

[9] The laptop had a suicide note stored on it, in which El Bakraoui stated that he was "stressed out", felt unsafe, and was "afraid of ever-lasting eternity".

[11] It also contained images of the home and the office of the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, among information on multiple other locations in Brussels.