(AFP) A French court on Friday sentenced a French jihadist to life in prison for holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria. Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, was convicted of having held the French reporters hostage for the Islamic […]
(AFP) Prosecutors demanded a life sentence on Wednesday for a French jihadist on trial charged with holding journalists hostage in Syria for the Islamic State group. Prosecutor Benjamin Chambre called Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, “one of the most perverse and cruel jihadists of […]
(AFP) The daughter of [a] murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on […]
(AFP) Five men went on trial in France on Monday charged with holding four French journalists hostage for the Islamic State jihadist group in war-torn Syria more than a decade ago. IS emerged in 2013 in the chaos that followed the outbreak […]
(National-UAE) The lawyer of one of the 10 defendants in the trial of an ISIS-claimed double suicide bombing in Brussels in 2016 has made the case that his client is complicit in war crimes. Nicolas Cohen, representing Bilal El [Makhoukhi], argued that […]
(UnHerd) When two young men embellish a Toulouse FC replica shirt with the name of the city’s most notorious mass murderer, is it just a sick and provocative gag, or evidence of sympathy for the killer’s worldview? Earlier this month, the French […]
(Brussels Times) Bilal El Makhoukhi, a defendant in the Brussels bombing trial, knew where a cache of weapons of the terrorist cell was located, according to State Security wiretaps in June 2016, transmitted to the federal prosecutor. This information is included in […]
(Brussels Times) Belgium hasn’t seen any major terrorist attacks since 2016 and Belgium’s Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA) rates the actual terror threat as two out of four — far lower than previously. Yet this is not to say that the […]
(JTA) Prosecutors in France said they are considering antisemitism as a possible factor in the death of an elderly Jewish man in Lyon, who police initially said had died in a dispute unconnected to his religion. The Tribune Juive Jewish paper on […]
(AFP) Former hostages and relatives of victims are seeking justice, accountability and perhaps even some solace as the trial of a member of the brutal Islamic State (IS) kidnap-and-murder cell known as the “Beatles” gets underway. Jury selection began on Tuesday in […]
(Brussels Times) Six years ago, it felt like extremist terrorism would haunt us permanently. The March 2016 bombs in the Brussels metro and airport left 35 people dead. They came after the November 2015 attacks in Paris that killed 138. Jihadists claimed […]
(Brussels Times) The Jewish Museum in Brussels commemorated the seventh anniversary of the terror attack that took place there on 24 May 2014 with a subdued ceremony. The commemoration was attended by Chief Rabbi Albert Guigui, Brussels Minister-President Rudi Vervoort and Brussels […]
(Brussels Times) Accused terrorist Salah Abdeslam held wide-ranging and open conversations with his fellow prisoners while he was detained in Bruges prison following his arrest in Brussels in March 2016, according to secret recordings made by Belgian state security. A document containing […]
(Yle) Finnish women should not be repatriated from the camp, because they are a security risk. That’s the reasoning of those opposed to bringing back Finnish citizens in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, which holds refugees from the war in Syria […]
(Brussels Times) Nacer Bendrer, already sentenced to 15 years in jail for supplying weapons to the perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish Museum, Mehdi Nemmouche, on Monday received an additional three years for a separate case of illegal arms possession. The […]
(Brussels Times) A Belgian terrorist suspect in the Brussels and Paris terror attacks carried out months apart from each other has been extradited to France, Belgian federal prosecutors confirmed Wednesday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, wanted for his suspected involvement in the November […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities have transferred Mehdi Nemmouche, the French jihadist who killed four people at a Jewish museum in 2014, to Paris for questioning over his suspected role in the kidnapping of four journalists in Syria in 2013, a legal source said […]
(AFP) The French jihadist who shot dead four people in a terrorist attack at a Jewish museum was on Tuesday sentenced to life in prison by a Brussels court, after prosecutors branded him a “coward” and a “psychopath.” Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted […]
(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” […]
(AFP) A jury found Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche guilty Thursday of the “terrorist murders” of four people at Brussels’ Jewish museum, in the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe. Nemmouche, 33, now faces a life sentence […]
(AP) A suspected jihadi insisted Tuesday that he’s innocent of terrorism charges over the 2014 killing of four people at Belgium’s Jewish museum, as the jury in his trial prepared to consider its verdict. Weeks after telling the Brussels criminal court that […]
(AFP) Lawyers for a Frenchman accused of murdering four people in a terrorist attack at the Jewish museum in Brussels insisted Thursday their client was not the killer, as his trial nears its end. Defence lawyers said Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, was not […]
(AFP) Prosecutors on Monday poured scorn on the “indecent” silence of a Frenchman accused of shooting dead four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels as they began their closing summary. French national Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, could face life in prison if […]
(AFP) The trial of a Frenchman accused of shooting dead four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium was briefly interrupted on Monday as police were summoned to question a juror. “We cannot start the closing arguments under these conditions,” Judge Laurence […]
(AFP) Two French journalists on Thursday told a terrorism trial in Brussels that they had “no doubt” the accused Jewish museum killer is the man who imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. The former hostages came to Brussels to testify against Mehdi […]
(AFP) A young Frenchwoman on Monday pointed to Mehdi Nemmouche as the gunman at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, the first witness at his trial to do so. Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman, faces life in prison if convicted […]
(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 […]
(AFP) The French alleged jihadist accused of carrying out a gun massacre in Belgium’s Jewish Museum denounced any attempt to intimidate trial lawyers and jurors Thursday. Appearing in the dock in Brussels main criminal court, 33-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche again denied shooting dead […]
(AFP) Two young Israeli women will Thursday face for the first time the alleged killer of their parents when they attend his trial for the Jewish museum attack in Brussels. The daughters of murdered Israeli couple Miriam and Emmanuel Riva will be […]
(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 […]
(Brussels Times) At the start of the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of carrying out an armed attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014 in which four people died, the defence laid out its main five-point defence […]
(AFP) The Belgian authorities have arrested two men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack and charged them with terrorism offences, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The main suspect was arrested in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek while his alleged accomplice was arrested near […]
(Brussels Times) Questioned about the fact that he had told the investigating judge that he would speak in the Assise Court, terror suspect Mehdi Nemmouche said on Wednesday that he would do so at the end of his trial. “I shall express […]
(AFP) Judges investigating the Jewish museum attack in Brussels rejected on Tuesday defence claims that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency may have played a role. Lawyers defending Mehdi Nemmouche deny charges that he shot dead four people at the museum in May 2014, […]
(AFP) Victims of the Jewish museum attack in Brussels were shot with “surgical” precision, first responders said Monday at the trial of French national Mehdi Nemmouche. Nemmouche, 33, the alleged jihadist gunman, faces life in prison if convicted of the charges of […]
(AFP) The mother of a victim of Belgium’s Jewish museum attack faced her son’s alleged killer for the first time on Friday, as the terror trial turned harrowing when the court was shown footage of the anti-Semitic murders. The accused gunman, Mehdi […]
(Brussels Times) Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of carrying out the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in which four people died in May 2014, spoke briefly at his trial in Brussels yesterday, as we report elsewhere, and then took a […]
(AFP) A man on trial as the alleged accomplice to the Jewish museum murders in Brussels denied any role in the 2014 shootings and said he was not a jihadist. Prosecutors told the court that Nacer Bendrer had been flagged years before […]
(AFP) The Frenchman on trial accused of murdering four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium denied Tuesday he was the gunman and alleged the court had robbed him of defence witnesses. Asked by the judge whether he accepted the evidence linking […]
(AFP) The Frenchman accused of murdering four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium had links with other jihadists, including those behind the Brussels and Paris attacks, investigators say. At least one lawyer wants to see if defendant Mehdi Nemmouche sheds more […]
(JTA) On the opening of a murder trial over the 2014 slaying of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, a leader of Belgian Jewry accused the defendant’s lawyers of spreading conspiracy theories. Yohan Benizri, president of the Coordinating Committee of […]
(AFP) A Frenchman on trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels left his fingerprints and DNA on the weapons used in the terror attack, prosecutors said Friday. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, listened to the case unfolding against him […]
(AFP) A Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels went on trial on Thursday, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces a […]
(AFP) Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in connection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of a terrorist group, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspect is believed to have been involved in the supply […]
(Brussels Times) Concerning the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, Alexander Strens’s mother expects Nemmouche “to explain himself, and say what he did, who his accomplices are, and what his motives are,” his lawyer, Mr. Dalne, said on Monday upon arrival […]
(AFP) A French jihadist appeared in court on Monday as a jury was chosen for his trial for shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014. Mehdi Nemmouche, the first jihadist to return from Syria’s battlefields to allegedly […]
(AFP) Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe’s first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in […]
(AFP) An alleged French jihadist accused of returning from Syria and shooting dead four people in an attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in central Brussels appeared in court Thursday. Mehdi Nemmouche, allegedly the first foreign fighter to return to stage […]
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