Both suspects (plus, perhaps, the murderer's 24-year-old elder brother) had been recorded on very clear CCTV footage in front on the Central Station. One week after the murder, on 19 April, the Brussels police issued a description and a police artist's drawing (identikit) of the two principal suspects as well as some CCTV footage taken by the station's security cameras. vrtnieuws.net, Tips over roofmoord in station stromen toe, 19 April 2006.vrtnieuws.net, Police release footage of killers, 19 April 2006. According to news website HLN.be, this delay was due to the police not wanting to aggravate pre-existing racial tensions or cause a witch-hunt against the North African community (to which the suspects were first believed to belong), although this was not confirmed by the state prosecutor's office. HLN.be, Gerecht geeft vandaag beelden roofmoord vrij, 18 April 2006.
