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Mehdi Nemmouche.
Two French journalists said Thursday during a terrorist trial in Brussels that Mehdi Nemmouche, the main defendant of the killings at the Jewish Museum in May 2014, had imprisoned and tortured them in Syria.
The journalists released in April 2014 traveled to the Belgian capital to testify to the character of Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman who faces a life sentence when convicted of murder.
"I have absolutely no doubt that Mehdi Nemmouche, who is here, was my jailer and executioner in Syria under the name of Abu Omar," said former hostage Nicolas Henin. At the trial.
His colleague Didier Francois also stated that he "had no doubt about" that Nemmouche had held him hostage with his French compatriots Edouard Elias and Pierre Torres who were not present on Thursday .
Francois said Nemmouche had struck him with "about forty clubbing", among other abuses committed during the period when journalists were being held by the Islamic State at the hospital. turned into a prison.
He added that the violence and "torture" inflicted by Nemmouche mainly targeted Syrians and Iraqis also detained.
The four French journalists were kidnapped in June 2013 and held hostage by the Islamic State in Aleppo, in the north of the country, until April 2014.
The prosecution and a lawyer from Jewish groups asked reporters to attend the trial to show what Nemmouche had done in Syria between January 2013 and February 2014.
Nemmouche's lawyers claimed that their testimony constituted a "cascade" and a "trial in the context of a trial", their removal being the subject of a separate proceeding in France.
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