(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Appeal ordered the Belgian state to pay additional penalties for not doing enough to bring convicted Nizar Trabelsi back to Belgium.
The former Tunisian footballer was sentenced in Belgium in 2004 to 10 years in prison for planning a suicide truck bombing attack on the Kleine-Brogel air base. Trabelsi was also found guilty of illegal possession of weapons and of belonging to the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
In November 2008, the US authorities requested Belgium to extradite Trabelsi, arguing that he may have been involved in activities for Al-Qaeda that went beyond those for which he had been convicted in Belgium.
