Brussels Court Convicts Frenchman of Murder in Jewish Museum Attack

Brussels Court Convicts Frenchman of Murder in Jewish Museum Attack
A court drawing shows Mehdi Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer during the trial of Nemmouche and Bendrer Belgium Mar. 7, 2019. Yves Capelle/Reuters
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BRUSSELS—French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche was convicted of “terrorist murder” on March 7 for shooting dead four people in a Jewish museum in Brussels after coming back from Syria in 2014, the federal prosecutor’s spokesman said.

Sentencing after the two-month-long, Brussels jury court trial, which underlined the threat posed by European jihadists returning home after fighting in Syria’s war, will be announced at a later date.