Chechen bomber deported to Belgium

The so-called one-legged bomber Lors Doukaev has been transferred from Denmark to Belgium where he will serve the remainder of his sentence, reports the Copenhagen Post. Two Danish police officers escorted Doukaev to Belgium where he was taken into the custody of Belgian police. In September 2010, the then 24-year-old Belgian accidentally detonated a letter bomb in a bathroom at Copenhagen’s Hotel Jørgensen. He was apprehended by police after he fled into the city’s Ørstedsparken. The Jyllands-Posten newspaper is thought to be the intended target of the letter bomb that Doukaev, a radicalised Muslim, planned to send because of the newspaper’s controversial publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed. In 2011, Doukaev was sentenced to 12 years in prison and received a permanent ban from returning to Denmark. Doukaev spent his childhood in Chechnya where he lost his leg to a land mine at the age of 10. His missing limb proved vital in his identification after he was recognised in Belgium due to his career as a one-legged boxer.