Sunday, June 1, 2014

Jewish Museum shooting


On May 24th a man shot three people dead at a Jewish Museum in Brussels, Belgium.  The suspect was identified as Mehdi Nemmouche a 29 year old Frenchman.   After identifying Nemmouche as the shooter he was arrested at a train station in France and it was revealed that he had recently spent a year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist.  It is believed that his time in Syria may have influenced this attack.  In addition to the rifle Nemmouche was arrested carrying a .38 special, police discovered 57 rounds of ammunition for the revolver, more than 270 cartridges for the Kalashnikov, gun parts, a portable GoPro camera, a digital Nikon camera, a black hood and gloves, a Nike cap, a gas mask, and a blue nylon jacket, all objects matching the description of the Brussels shooter.  Two of the victims who died in the attack were an Israeli couple in their 50's from Tel Aviv. The third victim was a French woman.
Alexandra Avery
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/01/world/europe/france-belgium-jewish-shooting/

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