French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted of 'terrorist murder' on ...
BRUSSELS - French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted of “terrorist murder” on Thursday for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in Brussels after coming back from Syria in 2014, the federal prosecutor’s spokesman said.
Nemmouche, 33, remained silent in the dock as former hostages of Islamic State militants as well as victims of the May 2014 museum attack testified against him, though he took the stand briefly on Tuesday to allege he had been “tricked.” Two men employed at the museum, Dominique Sabrier and Alexandre Strens, also died in the shooting attack.
The attack in May 2014 was the first staged by a Western European who had fought in the ranks of Islamist militant factions in Syria’s civil war, prosecutors said.
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