A prediction. Yassine Mahi will not appear in court on terrorism charges. If he proves responsible, he will be tried for an ‘ordinary’ murder. It makes absolutely no difference to the seriousness of the facts—much less the suffering of his victims—but his mental state seems far more important than radicalism in explaining his crime.
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ANALYSIS. “Allahu akbar” as a cry of desperation. Why the knife attack in Schaerbeek had little to do with terror
