Belgium Seeks Help after attack inside Jewish Museum

The consequences of triple anti-Semitic attack in Brussels worsen. The 25 year old man who was seriously injured in the shooting is clinically dead, confirmed Sunday sources close to the investigation. The young man, who worked at the Jewish Museum in Brussels for several months, was the fourth person shot on Saturday inside the building, a crime in the heart of the Belgian capital that caused the immediate death of an Israeli couple and a woman French, contributor to the museum.

The investigations by Belgian federal police initiated shortly after the event has offered so far, few answers. Just know that the alleged murderer was a man, well armed and prepared to act alone, according to Belgian prosecutors. Authorities arrested one person on Saturday afternoon, but shortly after he was released and moved into the category of witness.

Prosecutors released Sunday the first images and a description of the suspect, which was recorded by security cameras. A spokeswoman for the agency appealed to the public to assist in the arrest of the person, which is not yet identified. It is a middle man, athletic and moves nimbly bulk, according to the official description. At the time of the facts, wearing a dark hat, a blue shirt and dark pants. For the crime used a Kalashnikov gun. In front of the first stories that spoke of a getaway car, police say he fled on foot.

The episode is one of the bloodiest attacks against the Jewish community in Belgium since the Second World War. The incident, which occurred in the Belgian pre-election day, sparked a wave of consternation across Europe and in Israel, where they came from two of the deceased, a woman and a man visiting the museum. “The murder of Brussels is the result of a constant incitement against the State of Israel by various agents in the Middle East and in Europe itself,” he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reportedly Carmen Rengel. The president believes that Europe ” is quick to condemn an apartment building in Jerusalem, but not at condemn – or weakly condemns murder of Jews.

Despite these criticisms, the words of disapproval swept the EU, with strong messages of French President François Hollande, the Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo, and President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso. “Strongly condemn this terrible attack has been directed against a religious symbol in the heart of the European capital. It is an attack on the same values of Europe, something we can not tolerate,” said the leader of the European Commission in a statement.

Shortly after Belgian attack, anti-Semitic violence also spread to France. Two young brothers of the Jewish faith were attacked by unknown assailants on Saturday night near the synagogue Créteil, a town of 90,000 inhabitants located 70 kilometers south of Paris. The Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, announced Sunday the information without giving details about the incident, which condemned “with the utmost severity.” The French government ordered “immediately strengthen security in schools linked to Jewish worship and Jewish culture” and François Hollande asked the French to mobilize to prevent similar acts.

According to them leaders of the Jewish community in Créteil, two assailants, one that was on foot and another bike, attacked the young when they made their way to pray in the synagogue dressed in the yarmulke. One victim, 19, said his brother, 21, received a brutal hit in the eye with brass knuckles. Doctors at the hospital where he was admitted said the boy’s life is not in danger and there is no lose of sight.

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