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Ozan SELAMET
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics:
Parricide
Number of victims: 6
Date of murders:
January 19,
2002
Date of arrest:
Same day (surrenders)
Date of birth: 1952
Victims profile: Kismet, 4;
Abdul-Kerim, 6; Yildirim, 9; Ilknur, 16, and Yavuz Selim, 18 (his five children)
and Mustapha Arbay, 38 (his ex-wife's new lover)
Method of murder: Strangulation - Shooting
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Status: Sentenced to life in prison on October 24, 2003
Turkish man kills five people from his family
in Belgium
January 20, 2002
A Turkish worker in Belgium, Ozan Selamet killed his
five children and another man to punish his estranged wife and later he
surrendered to the police early Saturday morning. Selamet, who didn't
kill his wife, said ''I'm not killing you so that you would suffer for
the rest of your life.''
Father suspected after family
slain in Belgium
ABC.net.au
Sunday, January 20, 2002
A man is suspected of slaying his five children and
his ex-wife's new lover in a killing spree in the Belgian capital,
Brussels on Friday night.
Assistant prosecutor Bernard Michielsen said Ozan
Selamet, from Turkey, was arrested early Saturday after allegedly
confessing his crime to the manager of a cafe where he had stopped for a
few late-night drinks after the massacre.
Mr Michielsen told a press conference Selamet, aged
in his 50s and of Albanian origin, is due to appear before an examining
magistrate later Saturday.
He said it appeared Selamet had killed three of his
sons and a daughter on Friday night after they had paid him a visit,
before driving off with his victims to his ex-wife's home in a working
class Brussels neighbourhood of Ganshoren, where he gunned down his
eldest daughter and his wife's ex-lover.
The bodies of the three boys, aged 18, 10 and 6, were
found in a car parked near their mother's house, the oldest had been
shot and the others apparently strangled.
The youngest daughter, aged four, who had managed to
escape from the vehicle, was found on the ground a few metres away, but
died on the way to hospital.
"The mother had gone out looking for the children and
when she returned home she saw the car and discovered the tragedy," Mr
Michielsen said.
"Her cries alerted her neighbours, who called the
police."
After the massacre, Selamet went to a nearby cafe
where he drunk a few beers and a whisky. He confessed that he had just
killed six people and handed over his weapon to the cafe boss, who
called the police.
The only witness to the drama was a young girl, a
friend of the eldest daughter, who was in the house when the killing
began.
Neighbours quoted by the Belgian news agency Belga
said the children were terrified of their father.
A butcher said that the eldest daughter had run into
his shop on the same street as the family home a little over a year ago
screaming "My father is hysterical, he has gone mad, call the police".
