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| Body found at home of Belgium gunman |
| 2011-12-14 |
| POLICE have discovered the body of a woman at the home of the gunman who killed four people when he opened fire on Christmas shoppers in the Belgian city of Liege. The body was found today in a search of the home of 33-year-old Nordine Amrani, who is believed to have turned his revolver on himself after going on the rampage at midday yesterday. ``It was found in a shed which he used, notably for cannabis plantations,'' the prosecutor general in Liege, Cedric Visart de Bocarme, said on public radio RTBF. Amrani, known to have had at least 20 brushes with the law, was sentenced to almost five years in prison in 2008 for growing cannabis and illegal possession of arms. The woman was apparently killed before Amrani went to the central Saint Lambert square where he opened fire and threw grenades into the crowd, killing four people including a 17-month-old baby, the prosecutor said. The dead woman, aged 45, worked as a cleaner for a neighbour of Amrani, who had in the morning asked her into his home on the pretext of offering her work and then attacked her, the regional press group SudPresse said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 I'd forgotten that particular Seafarious-ism, Bobby. Thank you for giving me a smile, too, From tipper's link: The Belgian, of Moroccan origin, was on parole and had been summoned to police, where he feared being arrested and being returned to prison because his car number plate had been seen at the scene of an "immoral act". One must wonder if Mr. Amrani's grudge against society was primed and lit by his background... Most petty criminals do not suddenly embark on attempted mass murder, even when facing deserved returns to prison. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-12-14 14:25 |
| #6 TW - I believe it was Seafarious who said, "What's wrong with a little lysdecxia?" Still makes me smile. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-12-14 13:30 |
| #5 Update Belgian gunman had 'grudge against society' |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-12-14 12:29 |
| #4 You're having a dyslexic moment, Anonymoose. The M comes before the R in this case. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-12-14 09:34 |
| #3 I can't mentally get over that his name was "Armani", a fashionable terrorist. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-14 08:58 |
| #2 Amrani, known to have had at least 20 brushes with the law, was sentenced to almost five years in prison in 2008 for growing cannabis and illegal possession of arms. Jared Loughner: Too much ganja Anders Behring Breivik: Too much meth and steriods Nordine Amrani: Too much ganja Starting to see a pattern here. Rather than three men who had a political statement to make and couldn't make said statement without someone receiving small arms fired, maybe -- just maybe -- they had a little too much of the "good stuff" and it fried their brains. |
| Posted by: badanov 2011-12-14 06:20 |
| #1 Bodies and gunmen - like peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, mooselimb perps and no-identification-of-origins. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-12-14 06:03 |