Brussels – Belgian Police Shoot Man Carrying An Explosives-laden Suitcase

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    In this frame made from video, a bomb disposal robot from the right approaches an injured man laying on the floor at a tram stop in Brussels, Belgium, Friday March 25, 2016. Police again raided a number of Brussels neighbourhoods on Friday in an operation a local official said was linked to both the airport and metro bombings and to the arrest in the Paris suburbs of a man who may have been plotting a new attack in France. (Sudpresse via AP)Brussels – A Belgian electrician working near the scene of police raids in Brussels says he saw police shoot a suspect in the leg.

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    Norman Kabir tells The Associated Press that the man was sitting at a bus stop Friday in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek with a young girl. He says police took the girl into safe custody. Kabir says police asked the man “to put the bag far from him” and that’s what he did, but police shot him twice, apparently in the leg.

    Belgian state broadcaster RTBF says police apparently feared there were explosives in the man’s bag.

    Kabir says “I was very shocked … this part of Brussels is very quiet.”

    Belgian prosecutors say three people have been detained in counterterrorism raids Friday in Brussels, and two of them were shot in the leg, including one person in Schaerbeek.
    Investigators collect evidence near a tram track in Schaerbeek, Belgium, Friday March 25, 2016. AP


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    Speaksoftly
    Speaksoftly
    8 years ago

    Will the UN now demand justice for the alleged terrorist here as they did in Chevron for the one who had already stabbed a soldier? What hypocrisy!

    fat36
    fat36
    8 years ago

    Did they have to shoot him that should use restraint

    DMD45
    DMD45
    8 years ago

    This shooting is a totally disproportionate response that deserves a UN Security Council investigation and sanctions !!!! דמד