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A man has shot dead two police officers and a civilian in the eastern Belgian city of Liège.
The gunman took a female cleaner hostage at a school before being killed by police. Two other police officers were also injured.
The man's motive is not yet clear but the incident is being treated as terrorism.
Police sources quoted in local media said the man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic).
Belgian broadcaster RTBF said the gunman was let out from prison on temporary release on Monday where he had been serving time on drug offenses. It said that he may have been radicalised while in jail.
The shooting unfolded late morning on Tuesday near a cafe in the city centre.
Update: 16:56 UTC
More recent reporting states:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/29/europe/liege-shooting-intl/index.html
The incident occurred at around 10:30 a.m. when an assailant stabbed two policewomen from behind, before stealing their service weapons and using them on the officers, Liege Prosecutor Philippe Dulieu said at a news conference on Tuesday.
After killing the two officers, the attacker continued walking through the street and opened fire on a parked vehicle, fatally wounding the driver inside, Dulieu added.
The gunman also killed a 22-year-old male car passenger on the Boulevard d'Avory, before taking a female cleaner hostage at a nearby high school.
She was released when police shot dead the attacker, who has been named by local media as Belgian national Benjamin Herman.
See also, thanks to C0lo:
(Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:50PM (15 children)
Are they barbarians because of the race, religion or nationality? There are millions of humans, Muslims and Asians who are just like you and I.
No matter, because your prejudice is irrelevant: he was a Belgian who was born there. I suppose you ought now to add 'Belgians' to your list of undesirable people.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:55PM (7 children)
Your fault, J.
This information needed to be in TFS, not in the comments!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:11PM (5 children)
It wasn't known when the story was released - it has only become public since.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:51PM (4 children)
But you know it now, aren't you?
Would you mind to amend TFS with the new knowledge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:57PM (3 children)
Let the idiotic bigots who jump to conclusions without facts *out themselves*, and then look stupid in the harsh light of day.
Those who stand up and say "OK, you got me, I'm racist" at least will have the smallest iota of my respect for their honesty.
Radicalisation in prisons works on those with the weakest minds (but not particularly at the hands of those with the weakest minds, the concept of officers and grunts is just as valid in non-conventional warfare as it is in the more gentlemanly mass murder that we partake in), and there's little evidence that those of a western european strain have managed to evolve free of that trait. (Where 'little' means 'no'.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:30PM (2 children)
It doesn't matter. The native losers are being used by the Islamists who shouldn't even be in country. White people have a right to exist without being murdered or bred out of existence by other races. It's fat, brain washed sacks of shit like you that let it happen.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:42PM
Fuck you and your kind. Fucking waste of skin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @12:24AM
This is incorrect. There is no such right. And there is no such race. White people do not exist! Any more than Belgium [zapatopi.net]. Goddamn kin-murdering Frisians! Beowulf would kick your ass.
(Score: 3, Touché) by pe1rxq on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:35PM
Do you really want all the false assumptions bigots may make on the frontpage?
That will be one huge summary....
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:14PM
Well, nobody was going to say, but... /me ducks
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:31PM
If you are looking for physical appearance, belief in the divine of one flavor or another, or nation of birth to detect whether someone is a barbarian, you will, of course, get mostly noise, and very little signal. That would be prejudice, judging before evidence is known with which to do so.
If you, on the other hand, look to those who commit multiple murder, observe, nod, and record the fact that they are barbarians, you are simply observing reality.
Interestingly, there is a middle ground. Areas that are rife with violent crime do in fact tend to export people who are more barbarian and less civilized, whether it's Muslim villages who burn their Christians and infidels alive, or gang-riddled U.S. inner cities, or tribes of cannibals.
If--I say if, this barbarian didn't--someone should come from such an area, a wait-and-see attitude is probably healthier than just assuming they are a nice, good person who left the craziness, instead of part of the craziness looking to expand in other areas.
Thus, a prejudiced bigot would likely be right much of the time for the wrong reason, and your enlightened tolerance would likewise be wrong much of the time because it's often simply favorable prejudice, which has its own dangers.
This isn't a criticism of you--a caution, perhaps. It's okay to point out that being a prejudiced bigot is wrong while still recognizing the evidence-based case that like frequently breeds like.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:09PM
If this deadly mind-virus has infected Belgians, then they are as undesirable as people with ebola.
It's nothing personal. You're just too damn hazardous for civilization.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JustNiz on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:25PM
Hint: Islam isn't a race or a nationality.
Until every person on the planet has enough basic common sense/education to not believe in man-made imaginary sky fairies that command their followers to kill others, this will always be a thing.
I'm not holding my breath.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:54PM
Add? Belgians have always been on my list of undesirable people.
Frickin' Belgians.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:20PM
Fricking Belgians!
Signed: Dr. Evil
[True fact: Belgians sell little chocolate arms cut off of Congolese, in celebration of their colonial greatness. That and Goldmember.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:11AM
I thought they have been on the list since the beginning of time.
Why else did we name them after the worst insult ever?