Source: Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday as authorities searched for possible accomplices and the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bloodshed.
The convict who stabbed two police officers in the city of Liege and used their handguns to kill them and a bystander was a “soldier of the caliphate,” IS said in a brief statement on the site of its Aamaq news agency.
Such wording is typical of the claims IS makes even when slaying suspects have not been linked directly to the terror group. Belgian authorities have not said if they have evidence the inmate had vowed allegiance to IS or was acting on its orders.
Interior Minister Jan Jambon noted that Benjamin Herman, the Belgian national named as the Liege killer, killed a fourth person on Monday night away from the eastern industrial town.
Categories: Belgium, Europe, ISIS, The Muslim Times
an inmate, a criminal, a murderer, a lunatic. Actually by looking for an ‘Islamic angle’ the anti-terror guys are ‘barking up the wrong tree’ and consequently wasting a lot of time and effort and money. They have to look up the criminals, murderers and lunatics and see how they can prevent them from acting out their fantasies Once upon a time I had the occasion to take part in a workshop on CVE (Countering Violent Extremism). The Italian Police Officer said that ‘we are treating it the same as our anti-Mafia efforts’ and that is why I think the Italian Police is more efficient than others ….