(Politico) Belgium must pay compensation of around €100,000 to convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi for the damage he suffered by being extradited to the U.S., a Brussels appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The court also ruled that the Belgian government should ask the American authorities to send back Trabelsi.
Trabelsi, a Tunisian former professional footballer, was convicted in Belgium in 2003 for planning to attack the Kleine-Brogel air base, where U.S. military staff are based. He was given a 10-year sentence, which he served, and then Belgium extradited him to the U.S., despite the European Court of Human Rights ruling that he should not be sent across the Atlantic. According to the U.S., Trabelsi met al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden not long before the September 2001 attacks on the U.S.
