It doesn't get any sicker then this.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Found an English link:

Three die in Belgian child care center attack

Terrible.

"white face and blackened eyes?"

I really wish the crazies would simply remove themselves from the equation rather than reveling in their own evil.

[Tribesman]

"white face and blackened eyes?"

He forgot the round red nose.

[Reverend Joe]

A man with a white painted face and blackened eyes stabbed two infants and a woman to death and injured 13 at a nursery in western Belgium on Friday before cycling away.

The suspected attacker, who Belgian media said was a psychiatric patient, was detained soon afterwards at a local shop.

I know everyone's gonna hate me for pointing this out, but seriously...




...the similarity is distressing. Maybe this guy actually thought he was the joker.

[Strike For The South]

Disgusting

[HoreTore]

I really wish the crazies would simply remove themselves from the equation rather than reveling in their own evil.

There is a (more than slight) difference between "evil done because of evil" and "evil done because of psychiatric wondercase". This man may have been an evil crazy, or he may have been a crazy who is barely/not able to understand what's going on around him.

As this guy is a psychiatric patient, it may well be the second, and as such can't really be judged as evil even though they may do evil...

[rvg]

Crimes like this one deserve a special treatment as far as punishment goes. He should be fed to a school of piranhas or at the very least drawn and quartered.

[BigTex]

Crimes like this one deserve a special treatment as far as punishment goes. He should be fed to a school of piranhas or at the very least drawn and quartered.

I am hard pressed these more recent years to find the faith to believe that his punishment would be worse in the afterlife. No a painful and horrifing death seems to merciful, kind even. In a more perfect world I would rather see him helped, allowed time to understand the wrongs he had committed and be allowed to live in a lifetime of guilt for them. It would also seem I'm losing my taste for extravigent and bloody revenge. Piranhas, or being drawn and quartered can only serve to make our own society more evil. I hope he has a long and healthy life detained somewere isolated from all but rats, or a quick and painless death so that his last expierence in his life is gentle, may his death know what his life did not.

As for the children that died my thoughts are with them, for the childcare workers that tryed to defend them they truly are brave.

[Andres]

More information in English.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

From Times OnlineJanuary 23, 2009

Babies and adult killed in knife attack at Belgian nursery
( Yves Herman/Reuters)
Adults were injured as they tried to put themselves between the attacker and the children

David Charter in Dendermonde, Belgium
A crazed knife attacker, his eyes blackened and his face painted white, tricked his way into a children’s day care centre and killed two babies and a female childminder in a stabbing spree which left ten more youngsters injured with slash wounds today.

The assailant, thought to be a psychiatric patient, was said by police to have sought out the youngest among the 21 children aged one to three who were being looked after at the 'Storyland' crèche.

Three more female members of staff were hacked in the arms and legs by the knifeman as they heroically tried to defend the toddlers, some of whom had been sleeping in cots when the frenzied attack began.

The man, aged around 25, was last night being held by Belgian police who caught him at a nearby supermarket about an hour-and-a-half after he began his murderous rampage in the sleepy town of Dendermonde, 20 miles north-west of Brussels.

The guy just went crazy,” said Theo Janssens, the deputy mayor. “There was blood everywhere, it was unbelievable, real carnage.” With tears streaming from his eyes, he added: “He went straight for the babies and attacked them. The smallest ones were in their beds, they were probably asleep. The two who were killed were just babies.” The latest gruesome child murder to blight Belgium began at around 10am when the doorbell rang at the Fabeltjesland nursery in the St Gillis suburb of this 42,000-strong town.

It is not clear whether the visitor could be seen before he had talked his way in, reportedly by insisting that he had a message to deliver to someone. Witnesses described him as unusually tall and thin, with ginger hair and his face painted white with the eyes blackened out, possibly also wearing a bullet-proof vest.

The assailant immediately made for the youngest children as the all-female staff tried valiantly to protect them. One child and one adult died at the scene and another baby died later in hospital.

The man fled by bicycle and was arrested by police either in or near a nearby supermarket. He was reportedly wounded during his arrest. He is said not to have any known connection with the daycare centre.

“An act of great brutality has happened here against our weakest citizens,” said Buyse Piet, the mayor. “The whole city is united in support for the parents who are in deep grief.” Parents ran sobbing through the streets to the crèche as word spread of the attack and the air was filled with ambulance sirens and the clatter of search helicopters.

It took around half-an-hour for the first of a fleet of ambulances to reach the scene and begin ferrying the wounded to several hospitals where doctors performed at least ten operations.

Christian Du Four, the local prosecutor, added: “He quickly pulled out a knife and started using it on the children. He then went up to another floor and started doing the same thing again.”

Damien Vernon, a 43-year-old from Ireland who has lived in Dendermonde for five years, said: “It is just a sad day here, we are a small town and the crime figures are low here. We are just in shock.”

Dr Ignace Demeyer, director of Aalst hospital six miles away, said that ten children and two adults arrived with serious stab wounds, all requiring surgery, and that all were now in a stable condition. He said that the attack was very violent and that the children had multiple stab wounds all over their bodies.

Mr Demeyer added that 21 children were at the daycare centre at the time of the attack and nine were unharmed.

The town used a nearby community centre to provide psychological counselling to victims and witnesses of the stabbings, while parents gathered in the town hall.

It is the latest in a string of gruesome child murders in Belgium, where the paedophile Marc Dutroux killed four girls in the 1990s and Genevieve Lhermitte cut the throats of all her five children last year.

Article in Dutch

It says that the killer is only 20, did not have a criminal record, is not somebody who escaped from a mental institution, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Apparently, he refuses to cooperate and he mocks the policemen who are questioning him.

I'm speechless...

[Vladimir]

It is not clear whether the visitor could be seen before he had talked his way in, reportedly by insisting that he had a message to deliver to someone. Witnesses described him as unusually tall and thin, with ginger hair and his face painted white with the eyes blackened out, possibly also wearing a bullet-proof vest.

Either way, Bravo! Who let this guy in?

[Devastatin Dave]

As this guy is a psychiatric patient, it may well be the second, and as such can't really be judged as evil even though they may do evil...

Oh brother...

[HoreTore]

Oh brother...

Right Dave. I'll indulge you; we should punish people for doing evil things, but how can we punish people who don't know what they're doing? They belong in psychiatric institutions, we can't apply the same standards for people who know what they're doing and people who haven't a clue. A person may commit evil, but how can you punish him when he haven't got the faintest idea of what they're doing? Are we to punish them purely out of malice and vengeance?

There is a reason we have prisons, and there is also a reason why we have institutions for psychiatric patients. But hey, if you want to spend your life foaming, be my guest. As long as you have no way of influencing the society I live in, I don't care.

note: this may not apply to this particular case anymore....

[Devastatin Dave]

Right Dave. I'll indulge you; we should punish people for doing evil things, but how can we punish people who don't know what they're doing? They belong in psychiatric institutions, we can't apply the same standards for people who know what they're doing and people who haven't a clue. A person may commit evil, but how can you punish him when he haven't got the faintest idea of what they're doing? Are we to punish them purely out of malice and vengeance?

There is a reason we have prisons, and there is also a reason why we have institutions for psychiatric patients. But hey, if you want to spend your life foaming, be my guest. As long as you have no way of influencing the society I live in, I don't care.

note: this may not apply to this particular case anymore....

No offense, but you're the type of guy that, once the nuts are locked up in the looney bin, would be the first one screaming from the high heavens that they should not be locked up. SO what's the point in argueing with you. There was a time when this sort nut would be safely tuck away in an asylum but folks like you have unleashed these crazies and now the truelly innocent must suffer your bleeding heart. Take it for what its worth, i could give two how "uncaring" or "intolerant" you may think I am. If one of these ******* were to stab my kids to death, I wouldn't seek vengence on the nutbag only, I'd kill the bleeding hearts (judges, social workers)that allowed this waste of human flesh to breath the free air.

[rory_20_uk]

Right Dave. I'll indulge you; we should punish people for doing evil things, but how can we punish people who don't know what they're doing? They belong in psychiatric institutions, we can't apply the same standards for people who know what they're doing and people who haven't a clue. A person may commit evil, but how can you punish him when he haven't got the faintest idea of what they're doing? Are we to punish them purely out of malice and vengeance?

There is a reason we have prisons, and there is also a reason why we have institutions for psychiatric patients. But hey, if you want to spend your life foaming, be my guest. As long as you have no way of influencing the society I live in, I don't care.

note: this may not apply to this particular case anymore....

I disagree.

He falls into one of two categories:

• Sane - therefore evil, and deserving of retribution
• Insane. The damaged goods needs to be disposed of.

I'd not be overly fussed about giving the injection if required. I'd be doing more for the good of society than I do most days.

[Devastatin Dave]

I disagree.

He falls into one of two categories:

• Sane - therefore evil, and deserving of retribution
• Insane. The damaged goods needs to be disposed of.

I wrote an essay and you summed everything up with 4 sentences and had a smoke to boot. You're awesome.

[Tribesman]

So Rory , in your medical opinion would someone who said things like

I wouldn't seek vengence on the nutbag only, I'd kill the bleeding hearts (judges, social workers)that allowed this waste of human flesh to breath the free air.

be sectionable and as such are they damaged goods that you would inject to dispose of ? .