(AP) Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that they are investigating an apparent attempt to intimidate a lawyer in the trial of a suspect in the 2014 shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum.
The Brussels prosecutor’s office said that a baseball bat and false Kalashnikov assault rifle were left on the lawyer’s desk after a theft at his office Tuesday. A laptop computer containing the case file of Mehdi Nemmouche, who stands accused of shooting dead four people at the museum, was stolen from the lawyer’s office.
State broadcaster RTBF named the lawyer as Vincent Lurquin, who was representing a woman at the museum when the attack happened.
“It’s part of a lawyer’s work and we mustn’t scare the jury,” Lurquin told RTBF.
