[IsraelTimes] Mehdi Nemmouche, alleged killer of four in 2014 attack, has been in solitary confinement without trial for three years
The lawyer of a Frenchie accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish Museum in Belgium says his client may have a brain tumor and is being denied medical treatment.
| According to various cadaver studies done over the years, about 20% of us will die with an undiagnosed, symptom-free tumour in our brains, so the odds are good that Mr. Nemmouche's lawyer is both correct and raising a non-issue. |
Mehdi Nemmouche is suspected of gunning down the four with an assault weapon in the Brussels museum in May 2014. He has been in solitary confinement without trial for three years.
| It doesn't matter whether or not a brain tumour exists -- his brain has already turned to mush and dribbled out of his ears. |
Lawyer Sebastien Courtoy said Thursday that a medical expert believes Nemmouche should have medical tests and scans. Courtoy said his client is going blind and deaf but that the prison is refusing treatment.
Courtoy said Nemmouche is incapable of attending or following a trial. No trial is likely before September 2018.
He said: "There won’t be a Nemmouche trial. There’ll be a sham Nemmouche trial."
On May 24, 2014, Nemmouche is believed to have opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the center of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum receptionist.
The museum reopened four months later under heavy security.
Nemmouche was incarcerated
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
six [days] after the attack in the southern French port city of Marseille and sent to Belgium two months later, where he faces trial at an unspecified date in the future. He was arrested during a routine customs inspection with a bag full of weapons similar to the ones used at the museum.
Nemmouche, who is believed to have fought with Islamists in Syria, was under surveillance by French and Belgian security services, according to prosecutors in both countries. French authorities have identified him as one of the jihadists who kept four French journalists hostage until they were freed in April 2014 in Syria. |