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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Matthieu Demeestere

An arrivals and departure board is seen behind blown out windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels, March 23, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
September 16, 2023, 2:51 am
Belgian court hands out heavy sentences over Brussels terror attack
Eight men given lengthy prison time over 2016 suicide bombings at airport and metro that killed 32 people and were claimed by Islamic State
By Matthieu Demeestere
An arrivals and departure board is seen behind blown out windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels, March 23, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
July 26, 2023, 8:54 am
Six found guilty of murder for 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels that killed 32
Attacks on Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system, which also wounded hundreds of people, were claimed by the Islamic State terror group
By Matthieu Demeestere
The family of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, right, walk out to greet him on the tarmac as he disembarks from a Belgian military aircraft at Melsbroek military airport in Melsbroek, Belgium, Friday, May 26, 2023. (Didier Lebrun/Pool Photo via AP)
May 27, 2023, 12:57 am
Belgian aid worker held in Iran returns home in swap for diplomat behind bomb plot
Prisoner exchange frees Olivier Vandecasteele after 15 months in exchange for Assadollah Assadi, who handed off explosives for use at an Iranian opposition rally outside Paris
By Matthieu Demeestere
Former Princess Diane Von Furstenberg, left, sits with her mother, Liliane Halfin, during a party to celebrate the publishing of Miss Von Furstenberg's book on beauty by Simon and Schuster publishers in New York, February 28, 1977 (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)
April 22, 2023, 9:33 am
Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg: Holocaust survivor mother is my main inspiration
Ahead of new exhibit, designer says Greek-Jewish mother was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck; upon liberation she weighed just 25 kgs: ‘She was a skeleton amongst ashes’
By Matthieu Demeestere
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola delivers a speech at the opening session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on December 12, 2022. (Frederick Florin/AFP)
December 13, 2022, 5:30 am
EU parliament leaders vow to resist foreign meddling amid Qatari bribe scandal
Legislature’s president says ‘European democracy is under attack,’ after one of her VPs indicted as part of probe into suspected influence buying scheme by the World Cup host
By Marie JULIEN and Matthieu Demeestere
Anti-regime Iranian dissidents protest outside the Belgian Parliament against a prisoner exchange deal with Tehran that will potentially see the release of convicted Iranian agent and terrorist Assadollah Assadi on July 5, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
July 5, 2022, 2:25 pm
Belgian citizen held in Iran for four months over ‘espionage’ charges
Brussels says man has been in ‘illegal’ detention since February 24 arrest; prisoner swap with Tehran could see release of convicted terrorist
By Matthieu Demeestere
King Philippe of Belgium (C right) and Queen Mathilde of Belgium (C left) respect a minute of silence during a tribute ceremony, part of the national mourning day for victims of the severe floods, in Verviers, on July 20, 2021. (JOHN THYS / AFP)
July 20, 2021, 2:57 pm
Belgium holds day of mourning as Merkel visits victims of Europe’s floods
Cleanup operations still underway in Germany and neighboring countries following disaster that has claimed nearly 200 lives in Western Europe
By Pierre BEAUVILLAIN and Matthieu Demeestere
Greek MEP Ioannis Lagos, a former leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, in an undated image (video screenshot)
April 28, 2021, 6:51 pm
Neo-Nazi former Greek MEP refuses extradition from Belgium
Ex-leading member of banned Golden Dawn movement objects to 13-year jail sentence after being convicted in Greece on several charges, including running a criminal organization
By Matthieu Demeestere
People attend the "Free Iran 2018 - the Alternative" event on June 30, 2018 in Villepinte, north of Paris during the Iranian resistance national council (NCRI) annual meeting. (AFP/Zakaria Abdelkafi)
November 27, 2020, 4:26 am
Iranian diplomat goes on trial in Belgium for plot to bomb opposition rally
Assadollah Assadi, 3 other suspects face life in prison if convicted for plan to attack National Council of Resistance in Iran event outside Paris in 2018
By Matthieu Demeestere
Revellers dressed as ultra-Orthodox Jews are pictured prior the start of the Aalst Carnival's on February 23, 2020, Aalst, Belgium. (JAMES ARTHUR GEKIERE / AFP)
February 24, 2020, 7:14 pm
European Commission condemns anti-Semitic Belgian parade
Spokesperson says event in Aalst, which this year featured costumes depicting Orthodox Jews as insects, is ‘incompatible with the values and principles in which the EU is founded’
By Matthieu Demeestere
A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)
March 7, 2019, 11:33 pm
A criminal since childhood, Belgium Jewish museum killer was radicalized in jail
Mehdi Nemmouche, found guilty in terror murders of 4 people in 2014, is described as ‘sadistic, playful and narcissistic’
By Matthieu Demeestere
A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche (C), accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyruco/AFP)
February 25, 2019, 9:36 pm
Prosecutors slam Jewish museum suspect’s ‘indecent’ silence at trial
Belgian prosecution says overwhelming evidence points to Mehdi Nemmouche as perpetrator of attack that killed four, as defense blames Israeli conspiracy for shooting
By Clément ZAMPA and Matthieu Demeestere
A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)
January 15, 2019, 7:43 pm
Lawyer for Brussels Jewish museum shooter suggests attack staged by Mossad
Mehdi Nemmouche denies killing four people in 2014 shooting; lawyer for Jewish museum says suspect’s defense ‘doesn’t hold water’
By Matthieu Demeestere and Clément ZAMPA
A Jewish boy standing with flowers in front of an Israeli flag and flowers laid outside the Jewish Museum in Brussels, where a deadly shooting took place two days before, May 26, 2014. (AFP/Belga/Anthony Dehez)
January 10, 2019, 12:05 pm
Brussels Jewish museum terror attack trial opens
Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche accused of being the first Syrian jihad veteran to carry out an attack in Europe, faces life sentence if convicted of 2014 shooting
By Matthieu Demeestere
People pay their respects in front of a makeshift memorial at the entrance of the Jewish Museum in Brussels following a deadly terrorist attack, on May 25, 2014. (AFP/Georges Gobet)
January 10, 2019, 6:40 am
Brussels Jewish Museum terror attack trial set to open
Mehdi Nemmouche faces life in prison for killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian receptionist at the museum in May 2014
By Matthieu Demeestere
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