Posted on 09/06/2014 9:05:18 PM PDT by Nachum
A freed French hostage has said the terrorist behind the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May was among his Islamic extremist captors in Syria, and was part of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terror group.
Writing on the website of his former employer Le Point magazine, Nicolas Henin said Mehdi Nemmouche, who has been extradited to Belgium and held for questioning, was his jailer between July and December 2013.
One of a group of four journalist hostages freed in April, Henin said the 29-year-old, who spent more than a year fighting in Syria, was a feared and violent figure.
"When Nemmouche was not singing, he was torturing," wrote Henin. "He was part of a small group of Frenchmen whose visits would terrify the 50-odd Syrian prisoners held in the cells nearby."
"Every night the blows would start raining down in the room, where I was also interrogated. The torture lasted all night, until dawn prayers."
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed that French intelligence services had "transferred elements to the judiciary that suggest (Nemmouche) may have been the jailer of our hostages," following a report in Le Monde newspaper.
A police source told AFP the freed hostages had recognized Nemmouche from photographs following his arrest.
Le Point said that Henin had kept quiet on Nemmouche's role in his detention to protect the Western hostages still being held by Islamic State terrorists, but decided to speak out following Le Monde's report.
Henin's lawyer Marie-Laure Ingouf told AFP that "Nemmouche was one of his jailers. All the hostages confirm this. They lived alongside him for several months."
The Frenchman of Algerian descent was remanded in custody in early August on charges of "murder in a terrorist context" over the May 24 shooting, which left four dead.
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Why any Jew would remain in Europe or the Middle East (outside of Israel) is a real head-scratcher to me.
French Ex-Hostage Identifies Captor in Syria [Frenchman Suspected of Killing Four Jews in Brussels!]
ABCNews | September 6, 2014
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