BRUSSELS — Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche was ordered Thursday to stand trial in Brussels on suspicion of killing four people at the Jewish museum four years ago in a terror attack, his lawyer says.
Judges decide there was enough evidence to try Nemmouche and alleged accomplice Nacer Bendrer, who is also French, in a Brussels court for the attack in 2014, lawyer Henri Laquay tells AFP.
He does not name a date but the trial is expected to begin later this year or early next year.
But the judges decide there was not enough evidence to put Mounir Attalah, a third Frenchman linked to the attack, on trial.
On May 24, 2014 a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the center of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer, and a Belgian museum receptionist.
Six days later Nemmouche was arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille when getting off a bus from Brussels.
Nemmouche had returned from Syria where he had been fighting with Islamist extremists.
— AFP
Pictures released on June 1, 2014, shows the then 29-year-old suspected terrorist Mehdi Nemmouche. (AFP)
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