(AFP) The Israelis orphaned by the murderous gun attack on Belgium’s Jewish Museum testified on Thursday in the trial of the accused attacker.
The defendant, Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, appeared in the dock to insist that he was not behind the four “terrorist murders” in May 2014.
Two of the four victims were Israelis and the defence has previously suggested they were Mossad agents, victims of an assassination by persons unknown.
Nemmouche hinted at this idea, denounced as a murky and unfounded conspiracy theory by prosecutors, on Thursday when he spoke of what he called a tragic “pseudo-attack.”
The defence team has previously suggested that the Israeli couple — Miriam and Emmanuel Riva — were intelligence agents murdered by an unknown man who had hunted them down.
