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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 29 2018, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the again dept.

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.

https://news.sky.com/story/belgian-police-launch-terror-probe-after-shooting-of-police-and-bystander-11388883

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:


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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:03PM (4 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @06:03PM (#685763) Journal

    When are we going to smarten up and treat religion like a mental illness?

    Many of us would be fine if that applied to all religions.

    Unfortunately, in the real world, religion only seems to come up when the shooter is brown. That white supremacist, who is more likely to kill you in a terrorist attack if you live in the US, never gets his religion questioned.

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  • (Score: 1) by JustNiz on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:34PM (1 child)

    by JustNiz (1573) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @07:34PM (#685817)

    Hey don't speak for me. I think ALL religious people should be considered as both dangerous and at least mentally deficient if not outright mentally ill, and treated as such. Definately including Christians.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:23PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:23PM (#685847) Journal

      Then I am dangerous and mentally deficient and mentally ill. Just like Mets fans.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:21PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:21PM (#685846) Journal

    Unfortunately, in the real world, religion only seems to come up when the shooter is brown. That white supremacist, who is more likely to kill you in a terrorist attack if you live in the US, never gets his religion questioned.

    Not so. Christians and Christianity in America are criticized on a daily basis. Only, it's been sublimated as dog whistles and cloaked as political speech. If you don't hear it, it's because you're not the target.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:47AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:47AM (#686056) Journal

    That white supremacist, who is more likely to kill you in a terrorist attack if you live in the US, never gets his religion questioned.

    What religion is white supremacy? In the US, they tend to be Christian through to atheist. Sometimes religion is important, but it's usually not a big part of their ideology.

    But "when the shooter is brown", meaning an adherent to radical Islam, the religion is a key part of their identity and rationalization for their attacks. Come to think of it, their religion doesn't get questioned then either.