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Gun and Grenade attack in Belgium

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They have just given a conference. 75 injured, 53 treated in the field hospital which was set up, others got themselves to hospital. 3 dead at least a 15 year old boy, a 17 year old boy and a 65 year old woman.

The report which I will leave after appears to be right and it appears to have been only one attacker. He is dead They have no idea why he did it. They are still keeping quiet on most things but believe it was not terrorism and there have been no other attacks.

He had a gun, machine gun and 3 grenades and had come in for an interview with the police. He was previously known to the police, has spent time in jail and was not thought to have 'mental problems'

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thoughts with the families, just before Christmas as well. Makes me angry and that someone with mental problems was able to get hold of machine gun's and grenades.
 
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thoughts with the families, just before Christmas as well. Makes me angry and that someone with mental problems was able to get hold of machine gun's and grenades.
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True, they will remember it for a long time. The 2 year old has now died and someone else so the death toll is now 5. He was not known for mental problems. The police had asked to see him. Presumably something in connection with that drove him mad though how that would result in feeling the desire to throw grenades and machine gun a bus stop is beyond me. His criminal activity was connected to firearms
Sentenced by the court of Liège to 58 months in prison for possessing 9,500 pieces of weapons and dozens of complete weapons, and for the cultivation of cannabis plants in 2800 as part of a conspiracy.
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The police are keeping some information private for the time being. Like you say, thoughts for the families and those injured.
 


a 2 year old???? What a bastard
 
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a 2 year old???? What a bastard
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Yes, I mentioned her in the OP. She was badly injured but they were hoping to save her. Sadly not. I doubt he particularly went for her. He just threw his grenades and shot a bit and then, if the earlier reports I heard are correct shot himself in the head. He had clearly gone mad.
 

its a sad world we live in sometimes, Liège is a great city as well
 
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thoughts with the families, just before Christmas as well. Makes me angry and that someone with mental problems was able to get hold of machine gun's and grenades.
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Apparently he had drug issues.

It is tragic, including how he ended the shooting spree.
 

Yes but in the OP we did not know he was a gangster. I have already later added that he was criminally involved in firearms. However neither of those explains why someone would bring grenades a gun and a machine gun and start shooting off at a bus stop where people's known greatest crime is doing their Christmas Shopping. The girl who died has now been identified as being only 17 months and it has now been accessed that as well as the 5 dead including the killer there were 125 injured.

At the beginning we were getting reports of 3 attackers one of whom had escaped. I am sure everyone including myself thought it was possibly a terrorist attack although this time no one said anything until the Belgium spokeswoman made a point of saying they did not think it was terrorism, he was not known for terrorism and that there had been no other incidents (in Belgium)

There is no way you can get away from the reality that this was a grim attack on Belgium which will be remembered for some time. It gave the appearance of potential terrorism. Obviously the news were on to it. 4 people died and 125 were injured. It is to be expected that as this is a very uncommon occurrence it would take up the bandwidth of news,

I don't know why there was the delay in reporting the apparent far right racist attack in Florence resulting in the Killing of 2 Senegalese traders and then the shooting of himself. It may be that it was seen as just a gunman rather than an attempt at terrorism which the Belgium one was at first suspected.

It is now being reported though

Florence gunman shoots Senegalese street vendors dead | World news | guardian.co.uk

Gunman kills Africans in Italy - World News, Breaking News - Independent.ie

Italian far-right gunman kills two in Florence - FRANCE 24

Franch24 reported this 16 hours ago, far quicker that the al jazeera link you have made. I wish you had started a new thread with this. It is of course worth looking into in it's own right.

Edit: a body has now been found in the killers home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16172662
 
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