The terrorist militia “Islamic State” has claimed attack in Belgian city of Lüttichfür. The perpetrator Benjamin H. had been a “soldier of ‘ Islamic State”, IS propaganda agency Amaq. The IS does not provide evidence of this assertion. The Belgian judiciary had already classified deeds as “terrorist murders”.
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The investigators had been closed mainly because of perpetrator’s approach to a connection with is: The 31-year-old H. Had attacked policemen from behind with a knife, snatched m from service weapons and shot m with it. This is approach recommended in propaganda videos of IS, Belgian Prosecutor stated. Moreover, perpetrator has repeatedly called “Allahu Akbar”, i.e. “God is great”.
On Tuesday morning in city centre of Liège, prison-leaver had shot a young man in addition to two policemen. He n took a woman hostage at a school before being shot by police. A few hours before attack, man should have slain a drug dealer.
According to judiciary, offender 2012 was transferred to Islam in prison. In years 2016 and 2017 he had contacts in Islamists ‘ scene, after which no such contacts were documented.
In past, Belgium has been a multi-target of terrorist attacks. The heaviest of m killed Islamist extremists in Brussels on March 22, 2016 in Metro and 32 people at airport.
