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Nacer Bendrer

Interfaith

Accomplice to Brussels Jewish museum attacker gets 18 years in jail

November 4, 2019 Oscar Schneider  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Belgium museum killer in France over 2013 Syria kidnappings

May 17, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Brussels Jewish museum killer sentenced to life in prison

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Brussels Jewish museum killer facing jail says ‘life goes on’

March 11, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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” […]

Interfaith

Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murders

March 7, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Suspect in Belgium Jewish museum attack claims innocence

March 5, 2019 Lorne Cook  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Prosecutors slam Jewish museum suspect’s ‘indecent’ silence at trial

February 25, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere and Clément Zampa  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Belgian Jewish museum trial interrupted as juror questioned

February 18, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Alleged Brussels museum killer was ‘sadistic’ Syria jailer

February 7, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Witness points to Nemmouche as Jewish museum gunman

February 4, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish museum attack families tell court of grief

January 31, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Belgian museum attack suspect denounces intimidation

January 31, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Israeli orphans to face accused Jewish museum killer

January 30, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Belgian prosecutors probe theft at attack lawyer’s office

January 30, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish museum attack victims shot with ‘surgical’ precision

January 21, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish museum attack victim’s mother tells Belgian court of horror

January 18, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Accused accomplice to Jewish museum murders denies charges

January 16, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Frenchman denies Jewish museum murders

January 15, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere and Clément Zampa  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Frenchman’s DNA, fingerprints on Brussels museum attack weapons: prosecutor

January 11, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish museum terror attack trial opens in Brussels

January 10, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Jewish Museum attack: Victim’s mother wants ‘Nemmouche to explain and denounce his accomplices’

January 7, 2019 Unlisted Author  

(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 […]

Interfaith

French jihadist in court over deadly Brussels Jewish museum attack

January 7, 2019 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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 […]

Interfaith

Belgian Jewish museum attack suspect appears in court

December 20, 2018 Matthieu Demeestere  

(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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