Mehdi Nemmouche guilty of quadruple murder with a terrorist character

The jury of the Brussels assisenhof has Mehdi Nemmouche (33) and Nacer Bendrer found guilty of quadruple murder with a terrorist character. The twelve members of the jury are therefore convinced that Nemmouche the man who on may 24, 2014 in the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the Israeli couple, Emanuel and Miriam Riva, and museum staff Alexandre Strens and Dominique Sabrier doodschoot, and that Nacer Bendrer him the weapons provided. Both men were also found guilty of illegal possession of weapons with a terrorist character. The penalty follows Monday only.

According to the jury, it appeared from the dossier and the treatment on the seat obviously that Mehdi Nemmouche was arrested with a kalashnikov - one of the two weapons with which the attack is committed, - that was wrapped in a sheet, which IS-the slogans were. The perpetrator of the attack was wearing a Nike cap, is exactly the same as the pet that Nemmouche when he had the time of his arrest, and that only his DNA was found. The pair of sunglasses that he had, also seems to be on the sunglasses that the perpetrator was wearing. On the laptop were a number of opeisingsvideo’s found, and the voice of the man that the word came, according to the jury, consistent with the voice of Nemmouche, while the Asics shoes match the footwear impressions that later found were on the garbage bags that were to be seen in that opeisingsvideo.

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The thesis of the defense that Nemmouche was the victim of a conspiracy and a snare, was by the jury is completely off the table. According to the jury gave the defense no explanation about who or interest would have such a plot, nor about who the conspiracy or would have performed. Nor was there any explanation about the way that people would have cared that they not were discovered. The defense had based themselves, according to the jury's continue to on very questionable sources to a number of unsubstantiated statements about the victims and launched only a number of loose hypotheses, with and without deep to go into.

Delivery of weapons

About the condemnation of Mehdi Nemmouche was there advance little doubt, but less certainty there is about medebeschuldigde Nacer Bendrer. That Frenchman was rightly so because he is the weapons for the attack would be delivered: a kalashnikov and a revolver.

The jury found the various prompts persuasive enough to Bendrer in contempt. “Without the help of Bendrer, namely the provision of weapons and ammunition, would the attack not taken place on the way which eventually took place”, it was. In addition, there is the so-called “oorlogstelefonie” between the two accused in the spring of 2014. The jury referred to the suspected use of different sim-cards.

The jury also referred extensively to the train that Bendrer made to Brussels. First he said that he a garage mechanic was, but that turned out not to be correct. That Bendrer traveled to someone that he was four years more had seen it, “shows sufficiently that he has a certain knowledge of the plans of Mehdi Nemmouche”. Therefore, sentenced the jury to him if mededader of the quadruple murder in a terrorist context, in which he is a lifelong risk. The public ministry had a less heavy sentence as an accomplice in an advanced stage.

Bendrer was clearly excited by the verdict. After his lawyers clear to him had made that he mededader convicted, dropped his head for the rest of the reading of the judgment between his shoulders, and stared only at the ground.

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