(Brussels Times) Questioned about the fact that he had told the investigating judge that he would speak in the Assise Court, terror suspect Mehdi Nemmouche said on Wednesday that he would do so at the end of his trial.
“I shall express myself,” he said in the Assise Court in answer to a series of questions from Presiding Judge Laurence Massart, intimating that he would say more at the end of the trial about his involvement in the attack at the Jewish Museum of Belgium on 24 March 2015. “Be patient,” he told Judge Massart.
The magistrate had questioned the accused on his reason for not speaking in the Assise Court immediately after the investigating judge recalled his first appearance before her. “His attorney had told us his client no longer wanted any intermediary between him and his judges, probably those of the Assise Court,” she recalled.
