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Brussels Jewish Museum murders: Nemmouche to be extradited | Brussels Jewish Museum murders: Nemmouche to be extradited |
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A French court has ordered the extradition to Belgium of Brussels Jewish Museum murder suspect Mehdi Nemmouche. | A French court has ordered the extradition to Belgium of Brussels Jewish Museum murder suspect Mehdi Nemmouche. |
Four people were fatally shot in last month's attack, in broad daylight in the heart of the Belgian capital. | Four people were fatally shot in last month's attack, in broad daylight in the heart of the Belgian capital. |
Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, had spent a year fighting with Islamists in Syria. | |
His lawyer says he will appeal against extradition, arguing that the court in Versailles failed to guarantee that he would not be sent to "a third country". | His lawyer says he will appeal against extradition, arguing that the court in Versailles failed to guarantee that he would not be sent to "a third country". |
The suspect is said to fear that once he is sent to Belgium, he will be extradited to Israel. | The suspect is said to fear that once he is sent to Belgium, he will be extradited to Israel. |
Two of the victims of the 24 May attack were Israeli tourists. A French female volunteer at the museum and a Belgian employee were also killed. | Two of the victims of the 24 May attack were Israeli tourists. A French female volunteer at the museum and a Belgian employee were also killed. |
Mehdi Nemmouche is of Franco-Algerian origin and from Roubaix near the border with Belgium. He was arrested in Marseille, in a routine customs check as he arrived on a coach from Amsterdam a few days after the shootings. | |
Police said he was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun matching those used in the attack. Prosecutors said that after spending a year in Syria he had returned to Europe, flying to Germany in March. | |
Belgium sought his extradition under a European arrest warrant, which fast-tracks the legal process. | |
"My client will certainly appeal to the Court of Cassation (France's top criminal court) because he is not satisfied with this decision," his lawyer Apolin Pepiezep told French TV. | |
France, like several other European countries, is under pressure to tackle the radicalisation of young Muslim men influenced by the conflict in Syria | |
In March 2013, a young French Islamist, Mohamed Merah, murdered three paratroopers as well as three Jewish children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse. | |
Although Mehdi Nemmouche's return to Europe was reported to France by the German authorities, little attempt was apparently made to keep track of him. |
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