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Tuntematon mies ampui tuomarin ja oikeuden virkailijan Brysselissä torstaina.

Hyökkäys tehtiin oikeusistuimessa, joka käsittelee yleensä siviiliasioita. Ammutun tuomarin alaa olivat muun muassa avioerot ja vuokrakiistat.

Mies tuli oikeussaliin kesken istunnon ja istui hetken hiljaa. Sitten hän veti aseen esiin ja ampui tuomarin ja oikeuden virkailijan. Mies pääsi pakenemaan, eikä häntä ollut torstai-iltaan mennessä tavoitettu.

Ampujan motiivista ei ole tietoa. Median mukaan mies on syntyjään mahdollisesti albanialainen ja hän on kärsinyt mielenterveysongelmista.

Veriteko järkytti Belgiaa ja nostatti keskustelun oikeussalien turvatoimista.

- Tämä on ensimmäinen kerta, kun tuomari on ammuttu oikeussaliin. Turvatoimet ovat epäonnistuneet, sanoi oikeusministeri Stefan de Clerck.

Viranomaislähteiden mukaan pidätetty on 47-vuotias iranilainen. Ampumisen motiiviksi epäillään kostoa.

Immigrant on the run after murdering Belgian judge and legal assistant in courthouse in row over housing benefit

An Albanian immigrant was on the run today after shooting a female judge dead and killing a legal assistant with an axe in a row over housing benefit.

Isabella Brandon, a Belgium Judge of the Peace who specialised in family matters, and André Bellemans, died instantly from wounds to the head.

Belgian oikeussaliampumisesta epäilty pidätettiin

Belgian poliisi on pidättänyt eilisestä oikeussaliampumisesta epäillyn miehen.

Viranomaislähteiden mukaan pidätetty on 47-vuotias iranilainen. Ampumisen motiiviksi epäillään kostoa.

Poliisi pidätti miehen eilisiltana brysseliläisestä puistosta. Poliisi oli halunnut tarkistaa miehen henkilöllisyyden, mutta tämä alkoi ampua ilmaan. Poliisi haavoitti miestä pidätyksen yhteydessä.

Brysseliläisessä oikeusistuimessa 60-vuotias tuomari ja häntä avustanut virkailija kuolivat saliin tulleen miehen ammuttua heitä. Oikeus oli juuri käsittelemässä perhe- ja naapuruuskiistaa.

Arrest After Hunt For Belgian Court Killer

Belgian police hunting a gunman who opened fire in a courtroom, shooting dead two officials, have arrested a man.

Justice of Peace Isabelle Brandon and her clerk Andre Bellemans were shot in the head on Thursday.

The arrested man is a 47-year-old Iranian who was detained in a Brussels park after several shots were fired into the air.

The arrest comes after a gunman opened fire while sitting in a civil court, in the annex of the city's vast Palais de Justice.

The tribunal had been hearing a family and neighbour dispute case when the shooting happened.

This has been a very dramatic incident, a catastrophe. It is a tragedy. I am very shocked by what has happened.
Belgium's justice minister Stefaan De Clerck

Arrest After Hunt For Belgian Court Killer
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Sarah Gordon and Emma Langman, Sky News Online

Belgian police hunting a gunman who opened fire in a courtroom, shooting dead two officials, have arrested a man.

Justice of Peace Isabelle Brandon and her clerk Andre Bellemans were shot in the head on Thursday.

The arrested man is a 47-year-old Iranian who was detained in a Brussels park after several shots were fired into the air.

The arrest comes after a gunman opened fire while sitting in a civil court, in the annex of the city's vast Palais de Justice.

The tribunal had been hearing a family and neighbour dispute case when the shooting happened.


This has been a very dramatic incident, a catastrophe. It is a tragedy. I am very shocked by what has happened.

Belgium's justice minister Stefaan De Clerck
The gunman listened to a routine mid-morning court hearing before pulling a gun, shooting the officials and escaping into the streets of Brussels.

The building is located near some of Brussels' main shopping streets.

Witnesses said the gunman was injured in a scuffle as he struggled to escape after the attack, but he still managed to flee on foot.

Belgium's justice minister Stefaan De Clerck admitted the incident proved that safety measures had failed in the court.

"This has been a very dramatic incident, a catastrophe. It is a tragedy. I am very shocked by what has happened," he said.

Following reports that the gunman was an angry defendant from an earlier hearing, a court official confirmed they were investigating all lines of inquiry.

"We have not ruled out family problems as the motive for what happened but nothing is clear at the moment," he said.

Federal interior minister Annemie Turtelboom said: "We are shocked and appalled. Everything possible is being done to catch the killer."

Court staff and lawyers have held a minute's silence in front of the Palais de Justice.