Appearing in the dock in Brussels main criminal court, 33-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche again denied shooting dead four people in the 2014 anti-Semitic attack. Defence lawyers insist evidence linking Nemmouche to the attack is weak, and have hinted at a murky conspiracy. Lurquin represents attack survivor Clara Billeke Villalobos, an 81-year-old Chilean artist, who witnessed the killings and has testified during the case. Investigators said Nemmouche attacked the museum shortly after returning from Syria, where he had allegedly fought on behalf of militant groups. Holocaust museum stokes controversy among Hungary’s JewsSix days after the attack, Nemmouche was arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille.

Source: The Express Tribune January 31, 2019 10:41 UTC