The two Belgium cops killed in Tuesday’s terror attack were both moms married to fellow law-enforcement officers — while the slain 22-year-old…
The two Belgium cops killed in Tuesday’s terror attack were both moms married to fellow law-enforcement officers — while the slain 22-year-old bystander was shot dead sitting next to his mother, according to local media.
Liège police Officers Soraya Belkacemi and Lucile Garcia were stabbed in the back and then shot with their own weapon by suspected attacker Benjamin Herman outside a café in the city center.
Both women were married to law-enforcement officers, DH.net reported .
Belkacemi was the mom of 13-year-old twin girls.
Garcia, who was in her 50s, got married to her boyfriend of 14 years a month ago, and the pair had just become proud grandparents, their colleagues told Laaste Nieuws .
“Lucile was a fantastic woman. She absolutely didn’t deserve this,” an unnamed coworker told the outlet.
About 10 years ago, she lost her 21-year-old son, Axel, in a car crash.
After killing both women, Herman walked down the street and fatally shot 22-year-old Cyril Vangriecken, who was sitting in the passenger seat of his mother’s car. The mom reportedly ran out of the vehicle in panic after the attack, according to Laaste Nieuws.
According to his Facebook account, Vangriecken had studied at the Athénée Royale d’Herstal school and was a big fan of the game petanque.
