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| Alleged Brussels Jewish museum attack accomplice jailed for extortion in France | |
| 2018-09-04 | |
| [IsraelTimes] Nacer Bendrer is also accused of aiding the gunman in the Belgium attack; that trial is due to start in several months A French court on Monday handed a five-year jail sentence for attempted extortion to Nacer Bendrer, the alleged accomplice in a 2014 terror attack at a Jewish museum in Belgium. Frenchie Bendrer, 30, appearing in court in the southern city of Marseille denied the accusation, made by the brother of a local drug pusher, that he and another man ‐ one of them brandishing a Kalashnikov ‐ had demanded weapons and 100,000 euros. "It’s false, completely false," said Bendrer, who had been under house arrest at the time of the 2017 extortion attempt. The presiding judge said that the motive remained uncertain but could be linked to a dispute over a snack bar. Bendrer has been accused in Belgium of being an accomplice to fellow Frenchie Mehdi Nemmouche,
Their trial is expected to take place later this year or early next year. On May 24, 2014 a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire in the entrance hall of the museum in the centre of the Belgian capital, killing two Israeli tourists, a French volunteer and a Belgian museum receptionist. Six days later Nemmouche was tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the southern French port city of Marseille getting off a bus from Brussels. Nemmouche had returned from Syria where he had been fighting with Islamist myrmidons. Nacer Bendrer was formally charged as an accomplice in the attack in February 2015 in Brussels, two months after his arrest near Marseille in possession of various weapons. These included a Kalashnikov assault rifle like the one used at the Jewish museum. Nemmouche has been linked to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015 Gay Paree gun and bombing attacks that killed 130 people and maimed hundreds of others. Abaaoud died in a police shootout near the French capital days after the massacre. The Gay Paree attacks were allegedly plotted in Brussels by the same cell that carried out the suicide kabooms in the Belgian capital’s airport and a metro train station on March 22, 2016, killing 32 people. The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group grabbed credit for the Gay Paree attacks and the Brussels 2016 attacks. | |
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