BRUSSELS — The trial of a man accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium in 2014 after fighting alongside extremists in Syria started in Brussels on Thursday amid high security. Mehdi Nemmouche is accused of “terrorist murder” for gunning down the four — an Israeli couple and two people working at the museum — with a revolver and an assault rifle. Nemmouche, who prosecutors claim fought alongside Islamic extremists in Syria, was captured in France almost a week later. Marc Libert, a lawyer representing the family of the Israeli couple, Emanuel and Miriam Riva, said he wants a guilty verdict. ——AP Video reporters Mark Carlson and Sylvian Plazy in Brussels, and AP writer Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.

Source: National Post January 10, 2019 12:56 UTC