Man found dead after raid in Brussels
BRUSSELS – Police found a man dead when they stormed a house in Brussels at the end of a major anti-terror operation Tuesday, several hours after they were shot at during a raid linked to last year’s attacks in Paris, a prosecutor said.
It was not clear whether the dead man was one of the suspects sought in the raid earlier Tuesday in the Forest neighborhood of Brussels, the Belgian capital where several of the Paris attackers lived. Four police officers from the French-Belgian operation were injured when at least one suspect opened fire through the door, apparently with an assault weapon, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.
The anti-terror raid in the Forest neighborhood was linked to the Nov. 13 gun and bomb attacks on a stadium, cafes and a concert hall in Paris that left 130 people dead. Yet police didn’t expect violent resistance on Tuesday, the prosecutor said.
Mass killer Breivik gives Nazi salute
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has protested his treatment in prison – claiming, among many things, that his coffee comes cold and he does not have enough moisturizer for his skin.
He appeared in court Tuesday to call out authorities for violating the European Convention on Human Rights – and gave them the Nazi salute.
It was the first time in nearly four years that Breivik, 37, has appeared in public since he was convicted in a 2011 bombing and shooting spree that has been called the deadliest massacre in Norway since World War II. On July 22, 2011, Breivik killed eight people when he bombed Oslo’s government district and then slaughtered 69 others – mostly teenagers – gunning them down at a summer camp for the Labor Party’s up-and-coming leaders, according to Reuters.
UK spying law passes Parliament test
LONDON – A proposed British law that gives police and spies unprecedented powers to look at the Internet browsing records of everyone in the country passed its first major vote in Parliament on Tuesday.
The country’s interior minister, Home Secretary Theresa May, vowed its intrusive reach would be governed by “the strongest safeguards” against abuse. Opening a House of Commons debate on the contentious bill, May said the law would provide “unparalleled openness and transparency” about the authorities’ surveillance powers.
The Investigatory Powers Bill gives law enforcement officials broad powers to obtain Internet connection records – a list of websites, apps and messaging services someone has visited, though not the individual pages they looked at or the messages they sent. It also requires telecommunications companies to keep records of customers’ Web histories for up to a year and to help security services gain access to suspects’ electronic devices.
Jagger jokes about Penn-Chapo story
MEXICO CITY – The Rolling Stones have made a triumphant return to Mexico City a decade after they last performed in the country.
Mick Jagger celebrated Monday night’s concert at a packed sports stadium poking fun at actor Sean Penn, whose magazine interview with then-fugitive drug capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has provoked controversy in Mexico.
The British band’s frontman joked to the crowd that Penn had come to his hotel to interview him, “but I escaped.”
Associated Press & Washington Post
