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Jewish Museum murder suspect 'too sick' to attend court

13:56 22/09/2017

Mehdi Nemmouche, the man accused of carrying out the shooting death of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, did not appear at a committal hearing this week because of health problems, his lawyers said.

“Nemmouche is suffering from terrible pain and is sometimes unable to see or hear,” said lawyers Sébastien Courtoy and Henri Laquay in a statement. The problem, they said “could be caused by a tumour.” According to his counsel, the accused is not being properly treated by prison authorities.

Nemmouche is accused of carrying out the shooting attack on the Jewish Museum. An Israeli couple visiting the museum and a museum volunteer were pronounced dead at the scene, while another museum employee died later in hospital.

Nemmouche was identified from CCTV footage and later arrested by French police in Marseilles in possession of firearms, ammunition and an IS flag. His lawyers maintain that he was involved in the attack but did not carry it out personally.

Photo: Mehdi Nemmouche’s lawyers speak to the press at the courthouse in Brussels ©Dirk Waem/BELGA

Written by Alan Hope (Flanders Today)

Comments

Anon2

His lawyerS? Who is paying them?
This is out of the 'tout et n'importe quoi' book of criminal defence. Just a day or two earlier, it was announced in the press/radio that he planned to appear and wanted to speak for the first time since he was extradited back to Belgium.
And now his clairvoyant lawyers are suggesting a tumour and poor treatment? Same old, same old. His trial is scheduled for 2018. So much for swift justice.

Sep 22, 2017 14:48