Mohamed R. tries to attack Antwerp shopping area
The Associated Press reports that Belgian law enforcement was able to stop a fellow they’ve identified as Mohamed R., a 39-year-old from France, when he tried to “kill people or create a dramatic event” by driving carelessly in an Antwerp shopping district;
In the car, authorities found knives, a shotgun and a gas can with an unknown liquid. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
An official at the prosecutor’s office, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was still ongoing, said the suspect “was under the influence” but refused to elaborate whether it was drugs or alcohol.
Authorities immediately raised security in the center of Antwerp.
Of course, there’s not much about it in the news because he was unsuccessful in hurting anyone.
The high-speed event happened a day after Belgium held anniversary remembrance services for the Brussels airport and subway attacks, which killed 32 people on March 22, 2016.
The Guardian says that he’s being charged with terrorist crimes.
A man has been charged with terror offences including attempted murder after he was arrested driving at high speed into a crowded shopping area in the Belgian port city of Antwerp.
However, a source close to the investigation told AFP that investigators could not confirm if it was a terrorist attack and said the driver made little sense during interrogation.
Other sources said the charges could be interpreted as a “precautionary measure” to keep the suspect in detention.
Category: Terror War
Nice try, Mo. if you really wanna be a martyr so bad, just go to the airport and look for a chick with a rifle in a French Army uniform. She’ll be happy to oblige you.
That or you could have just filled the car with gas and explosives and then after leaving a rural unpopulated area, just do a test run of being a suicide bomber. You only have to practice it all the way through once.
Just some poor peaceful Lutheran Amish fellow with a medical condition.
Nothing to see here.
Mohamed R.
‘Nuff said.
Must be like that drunk in the grocery store parking lot at 7AM. Couldn’t find the exit, so he kept driving around until the tires fell off his car. Finally smashed into a lightpost and told the arresting officer that he couldn’t figure out where the exit was.
Maybe this guy was just practicing for his license test.
Was it Foster Brooks told the one about the drunk walking down the sidewalk running into a post? He’d get up, start walking , run into the post again…finally he gets up, turns to his buddy, and says: Itsh no ushe…we’re surrounded!
Here’s wishing the booger-eating goat-molesting fleabag of a jihadi wannabe could have ended up like THIS even though it’s a waste of a perfectly good VW.
Oh, if only!
Religion of Peace, it is so lovingly peaceful it just makes you want to go and sing about such loving peace while running down and mangling little children with a tractor-trailer…
Fak’Heem, and the camel he rode in on.
He was reportedly a moderate Muslim until he wasn’t.
The religion of peace strikes again.
Aloe Bathbar a$$munch.