Belgian Court Upholds 15-Year Sentence in Jewish Museum Attack Case

Nacer Bendrer is definitively fixed on his fate. Last Wednesday, his conviction was made final by the Court of Cassation. The same goes for Mehdi Nemmouche, sentenced to life imprisonment but who had not filed such an appeal, reports the newspaper La Dernière heure.

In its approach, the Court followed the opinion of the Attorney General who felt that Nacer Bendrer’s defense had not developed arguments that could prove that the Brussels Assize Court had made an error in law in the decision it had made.

Nacer Bendrer, who is dismissed from his action, definitively retains that his sentence of 15 years in prison is irreversible. To return to the facts, on May 24, 2014, an armed man had entered the Jewish Museum of Belgium, rue des Minimes in Brussels, and had killed two Israeli tourists, a volunteer and a museum employee.

Nacer Bendrer, a 30-year-old Frenchman from Marseille, was convicted on March 11 by the Brussels Assize Court as a co-perpetrator of this attack, for having in particular provided Mehdi Nemmouche with the weapons used in this attack.

For his part, Mehdi Nemmouche, a 33-year-old Frenchman, was found guilty of the massacre. Sentenced to life imprisonment, the latter did not appeal to the Supreme Court, the same source specifies.