Belgian shooter on ‘radical’ watchlist
The ‘radicalised lone wolf’ out on a two-day prison pass kills two policewomen and a bystander in Liege
Liege — A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being gunned down at a school in what officials said was a terrorist attack by a radicalised "lone wolf" just out of prison. The man was named by Belgian media as Benjamin Herman, a 36-year-old drug dealer and thief who was let out on a two-day pass on Monday. Police suspect him also of the murder of a former associate found dead at his home early on Tuesday. A Belgian MP said he figured on a watchlist of people suspected of being in contact with Islamist radicals in jail — raising questions about why he was freed unsupervised. Officials said the man attacked the policewomen, aged 45 and 53, from behind with a knife — described as a box-cutter by local media — about 10.30am on a boulevard in the centre of Belgium’s third city, near the German border. After slashing the officers, the man seized their handguns and shot both. He shot dead a 22-year-old trainee teacher who was sitting in ...
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