“I know for sure that you, Oh Europe, will go down.”

A sentence written on paper smeared in fresh blood; one of a few statements by Mohammed Bouyeri proclaimed in a particularly grisly way.

Having shot Theo van Gogh dead and slit his throat on an Amsterdam street that morning of November 2, 2004, Bouyeri drew out another knife and used it to pin the note to his victim’s body. “I know for sure that you, Oh Europe…”

And the world was