Massakern i Liége skedde för en vecka sedan. Nordine Amrani mördade fem människor, däribland en 17-månaders pojke som han sköt i bakhuvudet och skadade över hundra med en automatkarbin och handgranater.
När svensk media konstaterat att det inte fanns någon tydlig islamistisk koppling, vilket i deras värld betyder att det inte fanns någon alls, så drog man en suck av lättnad och nedgraderade blodbadet till "attentat". Tydligen var det viktigt att det inte var ett terrordåd, vilken skillnad det nu gör i praktiken.
Efter det har det blivit tyst i media. Jämför med vad som följde efter massakern i Norge i somras. Det terrordådet dödade förvisso betydligt fler, men det förklarar inte i sig den totala tystnaden i svensk media. Inte ens när 3000 människor samlades i Liége idag för att hedra offren verkar det ha väckt något intresse på våra redaktioner.
Samtidigt står det klart att den förklaring som basunerades ut redan samma eftermiddag om en vapenfetischistisk galning var förhastad. Man vet fortfarande inte varför Nordine Amrani utförde terrordådet.
Han hade ingen historik av sinnesjukdom eller mental instabilitet, något som annars borde ha framskymtat under hans brottsliga bana.
Den hjärtknipande historien om den föräldralöse pojken som hamnade fel i livet var något hans försvarsadvokat spred direkt efter dådet och dess trovärdighet som förklaring är därefter.
När det här skrivs är det fortfarande lika många frågetecken kring gärningsmannens motiv som precis efter terrordådet. Men på samma sätt som analysen (eller vad man ska kalla den) efter Utöya blev manisk så är det totala ointresset för Liége i media båda sprungna ur en ideologisk agenda. Utöya tjänade deras syften, Liége gör det inte.
Mina egna spekulationer om Amranis motiv?
En ännu inte hittad koppling till terrorism, troligtvis jihadister och att det här var senaste exemplet på mikrojihad likt massakern i Fort Hood 2009 eller den delvis misslyckade självmordsbombningen i Stockholm förra året.
Den andra förklaringen som ter sig mer trolig när det här skrivs är ett långvarigt cannabismissbruk kombinerat med ett kriminellt sinnelag som gett näring åt en tilltagande paranoia. Jared Loughner är ett annat exempel på vad det kan leda till.
BBC, Telegraph,
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Terrorist or madman or both?
As the initial chaos subsided after the terrible bloodbath in Liège the details about what actually happened are somewhat clearer, although the motive for the massacres remains unknown when this is written.
The first reports described a scene with several shooters with Kalashnikovs, hand grenades and an hour long shootout in what seemed eerily reminiscent to the islamist massacre in Mumbai 2008.
It turned out that these reports were to a large extent wrong.
It now appears to have been a single perpetrator, named by Belgian authorities as an Nordine Amrani aged 32 who ended the killing spree by blowing himself up with a hand grenade.
His criminal record which included offences regarding firearms, narcotics and sexual abuse indicates a ruthless criminal possibly fuelled by cannabis psychosis who finally went over the edge. It has been suggested that him being called to ameeting at a local police station court hearing could have been the mental trigger for the massacre.
If one where to assume the is any rationality to the madness, that scenario does raise questions why Amrani attacked innocent commuters and shoppers instead of the police?
It has been speculated that he should have some sort of right wing motives, but those kind of terrorist attacks are usually not that indiscriminate (in a Western European context) but more often targets immigrants or symbols of the political system they so despise. This was indiscriminate and targeted anyone within shooting range.
Another scenario based on his presumed maghreb origin is that this is the latest instance of micro-Jihad, like the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 or the partly failed suicide bombing in central Stockholm almost to the day last year. As several larger islamist conspiracies have been foiled over the last years the and the CIA targeted killings have decimated islamists in their previous safe havens they have switched tactics more and more to micro-Jihad.
Small groups or single individuals relying to a large extent on the internet to find inspiration and know how have proved very hard for the authorities to detect before they strike. That was aptly demonstrated last year with the abysmal failure of the Swedish Secret Police who didn't have a clue Taimour Abdulwahab even existed until he blow himself to pieces at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm.
But then again there need no be any master plan or sinister conspiracy behind today's tragedy. For the victims and their relatives there is probably little consolation in either explanation.
My thoughts and prayers are with the peoples of Belgium tonight.
De Telegraaf, De Telegraaf,
Dagens Nyheter
The first reports described a scene with several shooters with Kalashnikovs, hand grenades and an hour long shootout in what seemed eerily reminiscent to the islamist massacre in Mumbai 2008.
It turned out that these reports were to a large extent wrong.
It now appears to have been a single perpetrator, named by Belgian authorities as an Nordine Amrani aged 32 who ended the killing spree by blowing himself up with a hand grenade.
His criminal record which included offences regarding firearms, narcotics and sexual abuse indicates a ruthless criminal possibly fuelled by cannabis psychosis who finally went over the edge. It has been suggested that him being called to a
If one where to assume the is any rationality to the madness, that scenario does raise questions why Amrani attacked innocent commuters and shoppers instead of the police?
It has been speculated that he should have some sort of right wing motives, but those kind of terrorist attacks are usually not that indiscriminate (in a Western European context) but more often targets immigrants or symbols of the political system they so despise. This was indiscriminate and targeted anyone within shooting range.
Another scenario based on his presumed maghreb origin is that this is the latest instance of micro-Jihad, like the Fort Hood shooting in 2009 or the partly failed suicide bombing in central Stockholm almost to the day last year. As several larger islamist conspiracies have been foiled over the last years the and the CIA targeted killings have decimated islamists in their previous safe havens they have switched tactics more and more to micro-Jihad.
Small groups or single individuals relying to a large extent on the internet to find inspiration and know how have proved very hard for the authorities to detect before they strike. That was aptly demonstrated last year with the abysmal failure of the Swedish Secret Police who didn't have a clue Taimour Abdulwahab even existed until he blow himself to pieces at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm.
But then again there need no be any master plan or sinister conspiracy behind today's tragedy. For the victims and their relatives there is probably little consolation in either explanation.
My thoughts and prayers are with the peoples of Belgium tonight.
De Telegraaf, De Telegraaf,
Dagens Nyheter
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