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A lone gunman armed with grenades opened fire on a square packed with children and Christmas shoppers in the eastern Belgian city of Liege Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 75.
Officials named the gunman — who was himself also killed in circumstances that are not yet clear — as Nordine Amrani, 33, a known criminal who had been summoned by police that morning but who never showed up.
The attack came a day after the Belgian court sentenced four members of a Pakistani family to prison for the murder of their law student daughter and sister in the country's first "honour killing" trial. The Daily Telegraph initially reported that the Karachi Post in Pakistan claimed that the attack was linked to a sentence in an honour killing case. It said the parents of Sadia Sheikh were sentenced on Monday when there had been a bomb alert in the court but this has not been confirmed by any Belgian authority or media, and the claim was not repeated in updated reports.
Originally posted by GLaDOS
Hey, it's only terrorism if they're Muslim.
Originally posted by pazcat
It wasn't a jail break.
The police had called him to the station for a reason(not sure what it is) and he leaves the house with a bunch of grenades , machine gun and pistol and proceeds to shoot up a christmas market.
You won't be breaking anybody from jail throwing grenades at a christmas market.edit on 13-12-2011 by pazcat because: (no reason given)
Speculation is mounting that the attack was linked to an attempted jail-break from the Palais de Justice, reports Ian Taynor.
The Palace of Justice complex on the St Lambert Square, the scene of the attack, is a large court and prison compound. Initial speculation that the assailants were involved in a jailbreak are hardening though it is unclear how they could be so heavily armed.
The mayor of Liege, Willy Demeyer, confirmed that three males tried to escape from the palace of justice, according to the main Flemish paper, De Standaard.
Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liège, said the two teenage victims were school pupils who had just taken exams. Initial speculation that the attack was linked to an attempted jail-break and was carried out by three people was subsequently quashed.
This was acutely apparent in the media coverage in Britain and elsewhere in the hours following the attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011. Almost immediately a 'war on terror' narrative took hold, blaming the attacks on Muslim extremists.
Originally posted by GLaDOS
Hey, it's only terrorism if they're Muslim.
Originally posted by pazcat
Great plan really.
Create diversion, shoot self in head, job done.
He had a hearing scheduled for that afternoon and didn't show up.