A Belgian of Moroccan descent shot up a marketplace in the Wallonian capital of Liege, killing at least three, with a fourth body found at the shooter's home. That puts things on the French-speaking side of Belgium. Since France has a colonial tie to Morocco (think of the French cop from Casablanca being shocked, shocked at the gambling), having alleged shooter Nordine Amrani in a French-speaking area makes some sense.
What is interesting in the BBC profile of Amrani (misspelling that into Armani might be fashionable), there seems to be no play on whether Islamic thought came into play at all. Amrani liked guns and pot and had a long rap sheet, but we don't know if he was just a European gun nut who happened to be Moroccan or whether he went jihadi on the town square. That might be a ghost worthy of a Get Religion piece.
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