(AFP) A man on trial as the alleged accomplice to the Jewish museum murders in Brussels denied any role in the 2014 shootings and said he was not a jihadist.
Prosecutors told the court that Nacer Bendrer had been flagged years before the attack as a jihadist while in a French prison with Mehdi Nemmouche, the accused museum gunman.
“I’m not a terrorist, not a jihadist. I am innocent,” Bendrer told the court. “Terrorists are sons of bitches.”
Prosecutors said French prison authorities pointed out Bendrer “had been flagged since 2010 as a radicalised prisoner” in the southern French town of Salon-de-Provence.
Bendrer, suspected of having supplied Nemmouche the attack weapons, told the court he was “shocked and annoyed” when he learned of the shootings that killed four people on May 24, 2014.
