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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers A bunch of apparent robbers attacked stores and restaurants. What makes this case unnerving is that they did not seem to have any sort of goal outside of causing mass panic. They stole consumption goods only worth a few thousands of francs during every raid but just shot people on sight and they hanged around until the police arrived to shoot the police officers as well. Sometimes they took dirt roads and hid in forests to lay ambushes for the police cars that followed them. They did this at random for a few years and it became so bad that the police and gendarmerie asked the assistance of the military. For a time, you had squads of police and soldiers with assault rifles every other street. This, coupled with the sudden bombings by a communist terrorist organization and political murders meant that Belgium was really, really tense for a few years. But it gets better. All of this occurred when my parents were in their late teens, so they remember every aspect of it. My mom even knew one of the victims personally. This isn't mentioned on the English page, but it is on the French page: during their last raid, a police officer decided that protocol could go gently caress itself and shot at the fleeing robbers while they drove away in a car. He claimed he hit one of them in the back of the head through the back window. Whether he did or not impossible to know for certain, but the killers of Brabant were never heard of again. What makes this so unnerving is that they're still out there. And if they aren't convicted by the summer of 2015, they can't be charged for their crimes any more. So who were they? A random paramilitary group that seeked to cause mayhem for their own agenda? Psychopaths? Mercenaries hired by politicians? Part of operation gladio, that sought to influence public opinion away from the rising leftist parties and more towards tough on crime, right-wing parties? Nobody even knows.
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