Nicholas Mockford, ExxonMobil Executive, Shot And Killed In Belgium

[Peace Patriot]

39. Botched kidnapping seems unlikely. Seems like botched robbery, but...

...who knows? The attempt to grab his wife's purse (that apparently started the incident) could have been designed to misdirect police, if it was an assassination.

The article says that the assailants, after trying to grab her purse, shot Mockford FOUR times. That seems excessive for a mere street robbery with panicked (stupid or addled) robbers. Points to: making sure he was dead.

The white van may well have been a coincidence. The van crossed the Mockfords' path as they went to their car. May have been unrelated. Police are asking the van drivers to come forward. If unrelated, then they have two guys on foot, perpetrating this crime, and running to a motorcycle to escape afterwards. Did they get her purse? Article doesn't say. Did they get his wallet after shooting him? Unknown. If the object was robbery, and he resisted (defending his wife) and they shot him, what did they gain? The article is not enlightening.

In either case--botched kidnapping, or botched robbery--why shoot him? Very foolish kidnappers. Very foolish robbers. Kidnappers: You're not going to collect a ransom on a dead body. Robbers: Foiled or not, why escalate your crime? The police will double-down on a murder, especially such a high profile murder. If it was robbery, this indicates rank amateurs or first-time criminals (or maybe crazy or drug-addled criminals).

Anything can go wrong during the course of such a crime--including panicked criminals--whatever the motive. Considering who he was, I hope that the police are considering a sophisticated assassination that was designed to look like a street crime. I'd sure like to know if they got away with her purse or his wallet. It wouldn't be definitive (even sophisticated assassins or their operatives could have forgotten to complete the false narrative by making off with purse or wallet or jewelry) but it would help in understanding the crime.

On current information, kidnapping seems very unlikely. Robbery seems most likely (robbery by stupid, amateur and/or addled robbers). And sophisticated assassination is a possibility, considering who he was. On the latter, possible motives range very wide, and include personal motives (business or private).

Not enough known. And I would certainly not buy into an Associated Pukes narrative (or any of its details or quotes) until there are some independent, non-corporate sources on this crime. I've learned not to trust AP--and I'm so distrustful that I've given them that insulting new name. They are major disinformationists for the transglobal corporations and war profiteers who rule over us.

As for Mockford being an Exxon Mobil exec, I've learned, during my life, that there can be very good people caught up in very bad corporations and other entities. Life's circumstances don't always allow people to make an innocent living, and there can be a huge spectrum of knowledge, blindness and personal growth, in any individual case of anybody working in a corporation or other entity that is doing ill. Mockford, for all we know, was a whistleblower and was targeted by his own corporation. Don't judge people on their employment or other labels. And don't believe everything you read (or see on TV).