Shocking moment terrorist on prison day release stabs two Belgium policewomen and uses THEIR guns to shoot them dead while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ before killing nearby motorist
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Attacker stabbed two policewomen, took their guns and shot them and a civilian dead in Liege, Belgium
He then took a female cleaner hostage inside a nearby high school, before he was killed by special forces
Belgian prosecutors say the attacker ‘came out firing’ from the school and was shot dead outside
The incident in the eastern Belgian city on Tuesday morning is being treated as a terror attack
The male attacker had reportedly been released from prison the day before the attack
Belgian broadcaster named attacker as Benjamin Herman, 36, who they claim had converted to Islam
Victims named as police officers Lucile Garcia, 45, and Soraya Belkacemi, 53, and Cyril Vangriecke, 22
By SARA MALM
DAILYMAIL.COM
29 May 2018
This is the moment Belgian special forces took down a suspected terrorist who had shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he shot and killed two policewomen and a 22-year-old civilian.
After carrying out three brutal murders this morning, the attacker took a female cleaner hostage in a nearby high school.
The footage shows him running out of the school with two guns blazing before he was shot dead in the street. Several officers were injured in the gun battle.
The man, who is understood to have been on a day release from a nearby prison, had approached the female officers at around 10.30am, slashed their throats and stabbed them several times from behind, before disarming them.
He has been named as Benjamin Herman, 36, an alleged Muslim convert who had been radicalised in prison.
The victims have been named as police officers Lucile Garcia, 45, and Soraya Belkacemi, 53, and 22-year-old Cyril Vangriecken, who was shot dead sitting in a parked car with his mother.
Federal prosecutors said they had launched a terror investigation into the incident, which comes as Belgium remains on high alert after a string of attacks including twin suicide bombings in Brussels in 2016 claimed by the Islamic State group.
The police chief in Liege, Christian Beaupere, has since said the motive of the attacker was to target the police, although it is not clear how police had come to this conclusion.
According to Belgian broadcaster RTBF, Herman was a violent drug dealer with additional convictions for both robbery and assault, who had been let out on day-release from a local prison on Monday, but never returned.
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