Posted on 03/07/2019 12:37:53 PM PST by reaganaut1
BRUSSELS—A French-Algerian man and his accomplice were found guilty of shooting four people in the Jewish Museum of Brussels five years ago, the first verdict against a European who joined Islamic State in Syria and returned to stage terrorist attacks.
A Belgian jury on Thursday said Mehdi Nemmouche, a 33-year-old French national of Algerian descent, had shot and killed two Israeli tourists, an employee and a museum volunteer in fewer than two minutes in the May 2014 attack.
His sentence, which could be life in prison, is expected to be read Monday. Jury trials are rare in Belgium, and the 12 jurors deliberated for two days before reaching their verdict after a two-month trial.
Nemmouche’s co-defendant, Nacer Bendrer, a 30-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, was convicted of supplying weapons to and helping Nemmouche carry out the attack. Bendrer’s sentence, which could also be life in prison, is due Monday, too.
The two men met in prison in southern France in 2008, where they were serving sentences for robberies. According to the prison director at the time, who testified during the trial, Nemmouche had already been radicalized and had a strong influence on his new acquaintance. Once out of prison, in December 2012, Nemmouche left for Syria and joined Islamic State.
During the trial, two French journalists who had been abducted in Syria by Islamic State, identified Nemmouche as their guard while in captivity. They described him as a “playful sadist” who enjoyed torturing his other victims.
Evidence presented during the trial also exposed Nemmouche as a member of the same Franco-Belgian terror cell that carried out attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016, killing a total of 162 people.
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French-Algerian ........... IOW, Muslims.....................
> French-Algerian ........... IOW, Muslims..................... <
Shhh. That was supposed to be a secret.
I’m pretty sure they ain’t Baptists................
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