This Week's Islamic Terror Attack in Europe Injures 9 in Germany

Truck attack in Germany being treated as act of terrorism

The scene where a truck crashed in to cars stopped at a red light in Limburg, western Germany on October 7, 2019. © AFP / Sascha Ditscher

An incident involving a stolen truck that plowed into traffic in the city of Limburg, Germany has been classified as terrorism, according to the country’s public broadcaster.

At least nine people were injured in the attack, which was reportedly carried out by a man from Syria in his early 30s.

Although the suspect’s motives were initially unclear, authorities are now treating the crime as an act of terrorism, public broadcaster ZDF reported, citing security officials.

After dragging a driver of a white Mercedes truck from his vehicle, the suspect is said to have accelerated into a group of cars stopped at a traffic light. The attack damaged eight vehicles and scattered debris across the road.

Witnesses said the assailant said “Allah” several times and spoke Arabic, according to German media.

Germany suffered from a far bloodier truck attack in 2016, when a Tunisian migrant used a vehicle to plough through a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people.

2 Police Officers, Woman, Gunman Dead in Belgium Terrorist Shooting

Just moments after posting a story about France releasing radicalized Muslims from prison, we get this from Belgium where, apparently, a radicalized Muslim, out of prison on a pass, kills 3 people and wounds two more, all but one were police officers.

As I wrote in the previous story, radicalized Muslims should be declared insane and locked up for the rest of their lives in a secure asylum.

By Sara Shayanian  | 

A bomb squad arrives at the scene following a shooting in Liege, Belgium on Tuesday.

Photo by Michel Tonneau/EPA-EFE

UPI -- A gunman shot dead two police officers Tuesday after taking a woman hostage in Belgium, authorities said.

The shooter, released from jail Monday, was on leave for a short period of time when the standoff in the town of Liege began.

Officials said two female police officers stopped the 30-year-old gunman. He disarmed one of the women and began shooting -- killing both officers and a 22-year-old female bystander.

The attacker fled from the scene and took a cleaning woman hostage at the entrance of a nearby high school, authorities said. Two police officers were injured in a shootout there and the gunman was killed. The hostage was not harmed.

A teacher at the school, identified as Vincent by Belgian outlet La Libre, said he evacuated more than 800 students from the building.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel condemned the violence.

"Violence cowardly and blind," Michel said in a tweet. "All our support for the victims and their loved ones. We are monitoring the situation with the security services and the crisis center."

Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the country's anti-terrorist crisis center is monitoring the situation.

Belgian authorities consider the shooting to be a terror attack.

Liege is an industrial city close to the German border in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Belgium.