Just for the record I wonder how many of our US American members would be aware of the shooting that took place here in Belgium.
For those who haven't heard, yesterday, a 31-year-old petty criminal — mostly drug-related stuff, although there was one charge of assault and robbery as well — was let out on penitentiary leave for the 14th time. He was scheduled to be released from prison in 2020. Even though he was a born-and-bred Belgian of West-European ethnicity, it has come to the surface in the meantime that he had converted to Islam while in prison.
While out on penitentiary leave from the prison in Marche-en-Famennes yesterday, the perpetrator first sought out his former cellmate and murdered him. Then he went to the city of Liège, where he attacked two female police officers with a knife, took both of their handguns — two 9-mm pistols with 17 rounds each — and killed them both in cold blood from point-blank range. He then shot and killed a 22-year-old young man in his own car, in front of the young man's mother, who was sitting next to him.
At that point, a police squadron had already arrived on the scene. The perpetrator then shouted "Allahu Akbar" and proceeded to open fire at the police squadron, thereby injuring four more police officers. The police returned fire and were eventually able to incapacitate him. He died of his injuries a short while later.