(AFP) A French jihadist found guilty of shooting dead four people in a terrorist attack at Brussels’ Jewish museum joked Monday “life goes on” as prosecutors demanded he be jailed for life.
A jury last week convicted Mehdi Nemmouche of “terrorist murder” for the anti-Semitic gun rampage in the Belgian capital on May 24, 2014, a crime committed following his return from Syria’s battlefields.
The 33-year-old said “life goes on” with a smirk in his final words before the jury retired to consider his sentence, after prosecutors branded him a “coward” and a “psychopath” and demanded a tough sentence.
“What we ask, without the slightest hesitation, is that you sentence Mehdi Nemmouche to life in prison,” prosecutor Yves Moreau told the Brussels criminal court.
