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Belgian prosecutors on Friday announced they were ending a 40-year investigation into an armed gang that terrorized the country in the 1980s and killed 28 people, including children, in a series of robberies and shooting sprees. “Unfortunately we were unable to bring the truth to the surface,” Federal Prosecutor Ann Fransen said at a press conference on Friday. Several of the attacks targeted supermarkets, but while the gunmen used extreme violence against bystanders, the goods they stole were often trivial by comparison, such as coffee and wine. They also attacked gun shops and higher-value t…

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