Suspected Brussels Jewish museum killer to stand trial: lawyer

  • 4/20/2018
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Mehdi Nemmouche is accused of killing four people on May 24, 2014 Nemmouche was arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille when getting off a bus from Brussels BRUSSELS: Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche was ordered Thursday to stand trial in Brussels for allegedly killing four people at the Jewish museum four years ago in a jihadist attack, his lawyer said. Judges decided there was enough evidence to try Nemmouche and alleged accomplice Nacer Bendrer, who is also French, in a Brussels court for the attack in 2014, lawyer Henri Laquay told AFP. He did not name a date but the trial is expected to begin later this year or early next year. But the judges decided there was not enough evidence to put Mounir Attalah, a third Frenchman linked to the attack, on trial. On May 24, 2014 a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the center of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum receptionist. Six days later Nemmouche was arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille when getting off a bus from Brussels. Nemmouche had returned from Syria where he had been fighting with Islamist extremists.

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