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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:14 AM Jun 2014

Suspected gunman held for Brussels Jewish museum shooting

Source: AFP

Paris (AFP) - A Frenchman with suspected ties to Islamic radicals in Syria has been arrested over last week's fatal shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, investigation sources told AFP on Sunday.

The suspected gunman, 29-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche, was arrested Friday in the southern French city of Marseille in possession of a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun similar to the ones used in the attack on May 24, the sources said.

He has been detained on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, a judicial source said.

The shooting by a lone gunman killed three people outright -- an Israeli couple and a Frenchwoman, while the fourth victim, a 24-year-old Belgian man, was left clinically dead.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-arrested-over-brussels-jewish-museum-shooting-071834845.html;_ylt=AwrSyCNR24pTdU8AByfQtDMD

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Suspected gunman held for Brussels Jewish museum shooting (Original Post) Bosonic Jun 2014 OP

If they got the right guy, this is a welcome departure from the norm DFW Jun 2014 #1

"Suspected ties" ? Rhinodawg Jun 2014 #2

Brussels Jewish Museum killings: Suspect 'admitted attack' muriel_volestrangler Jun 2014 #3

Nasty piece of work there. I'm guessing he'll get a few years. But IDK their laws, period. freshwest Jun 2014 #4

what will happen? Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 #5

DFW

(54,341 posts)

1. If they got the right guy, this is a welcome departure from the norm

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 06:04 AM

Jun 2014

If it had been left up to the Belgians alone, they probably would have yawned and said, "shit happens." I have rarely experienced a western European country with a more corrupt system of "law enforcement" than in Belgium. The French have had anti-Jewish incidents with guns in recent years, and have acted more forcefully to find the perps. So, too, in this case, it would appear. I'm impressed they caught the guy in Marseille. That town is not known for being the easiest place for cops to catch bad guys.

Rhinodawg

(2,219 posts)

2. "Suspected ties" ?

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 02:12 PM

Jun 2014

Really ?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,306 posts)

3. Brussels Jewish Museum killings: Suspect 'admitted attack'

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 05:51 PM

Jun 2014

Police found Mr Nemmouche had in his possession a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun believed to have been used in the attack, the Paris prosecutor told a news conference on Sunday.

With the weapons was a white sheet emblazoned with the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a jihadist group fighting in Syria, according to Mr Molins.

Mr Nemmouche was also said to be carrying a camera with a 40-second video showing the two guns and a voice recording, claiming responsibility for the killings and expressing regret that the device had not succeeded in capturing the shooting.
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Mr Nemmouche, a French national from the northern town of Roubaix, was arrested at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille as he was getting off a coach during a random drugs search. The coach was travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27654505

From that last paragraph, it almost sounds like they caught him by chance.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

4. Nasty piece of work there. I'm guessing he'll get a few years. But IDK their laws, period.

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:42 PM

Jun 2014

Behind the Aegis

(53,949 posts)

5. what will happen?

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:11 PM

Jun 2014

who will care? what will transpire as a result of this arrest?

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