Five years after the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels is spoken, the offender is guilty: He must reckon with at least 30 years in prison. The stop is regarded as the first act of terrorism of the IS in Europe.
The judgment of the Brussels assizes court is: guilty on all counts. After several days of deliberations, it looked at the twelve members of the Jury established that the defendant is the man who, at 24. May 2014 stormed into the entrance hall of the Jewish Museum.
He shot and killed within a few minutes four people: a tourist couple from Israel, a French host student and a Belgian employee. The motive of the perpetrator: the hatred of Jews.
A court drawing shows the accused during the process in Brussels.
In the name of the "Islamic state"the Version of The defense, its mandate was the innocent victim of an Iranian-Lebanese secret service conspiracy, not wanted to believe the jury. They assumed that the 33-year-old Syria-returnees committed the act in the name of the terrorist militia "Islamic state".
Several witnesses had identified the accused clearly as a former torturer and jailer of the IS. The police had also ensured a Confessor video that is associated with the Islamists.
His is also accused accomplices, the court sentenced for aiding and abetting. He had worried the assassin, the murder weapon, a Kalashnikov, this was wearing at the time of his arrest in Marseille six days later.
the Museum before the factWith the guilty verdict followed the court to the plea of the public Prosecutor's office observed. In the course of the eight-week trial, they had presented overwhelming circumstantial evidence against Frenchman of Algerian descent. Apart from his fingerprints on the murder weapon, the especially images of a surveillance camera, which allow the conclusion, that he had scouted the Jewish Museum on the day before the assassination.
How long is the convicted Terrorist to prison, the court decides according to Belgian law, in an extra session. Observers expect a sentence of at least 30 years.
In France, a further process threatens him also: he has to answer for the kidnapping of four journalists in Syria. The attack on the Jewish Museum, which is considered the first act of terrorism of the IS on European soil.
assassin from the Jewish Museum of Brussels guilty
Holger Romann, ARD, Brussels
07.03.2019 21:16 PM
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