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Back in May, a Belgian woman named Shanti Ducor-Tey was killed by Euthanasia.

Six years ago, when only a teenager, Ducor-Tey had survived the horrific terrorist attack on Brussels.

Thirty-two people were killed in that attack, which was perpetrated by Islamic State terrorists.

Many students were among the victims, classmates of Ducor-Tey.

So she narrowly escaped being killed, Ducor-Tey struggled to cope with the trauma of that event.

Even as a teenager, she was prescribed heavy medication for her depression, which only grew

worse in time.

I get several drugs at breakfast, sent up to 11 antidepressants a day, she wrote, with

all the drugs I take, I feel like a ghost who doesn't feel anything anymore, perhaps

there were solutions other than the drugs, end quote.

In April of 2022, Ducor-Tey submitted a request for Euthanasia due to her medically futile

condition of mental suffering.

Two psychologists signed off on the request, a month later, at age 23, she was given a cocktail

of lethal drugs.

This makes Shanti Ducor-Tey the 33rd victim of her nation's deadliest terror attack.

Only she was not killed by the terrorist.

She was killed by her own government.

This past September, Belgium put nine of the terrorist attackers on trial, and a horrible

irony not one of them faces the death penalty, which as Douglas Murray pointed out in the

UK spectator is, quote, illegal under the European Convention, the European Court of Justice,

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