However, in the video below, they identify the gunman Mehdi Nemmouche as a “Frenchman.” Apologies to all the real Frenchmen reading this.
CNN Police
have arrested a suspect in Marseille, France, in connection with the
shooting deaths of 4 Jewish people May 24 at the Jewish Museum in
Brussels, Belgium, Belgian federal magistrate Wenke Roggen said Sunday.
The suspect is identified as Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old Frenchman
from Roubaix in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. Nemmouche
recently spent a year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist, the chief
prosecutor of Paris said at a news conference Sunday.
Francois
Molins said Nemmouche, who has a criminal history that included a
five-year prison stint, was detained at the St. Charles Train Station on
Friday after returning to France by bus from Brussels by way of
Amsterdam. Molins said customs police detained Nemmouche after
discovering a Kalashnikov assault rifle in his luggage and a revolver in
a black bag he was carrying.
Nemmouche,
who has remained silent during his detention, was influenced by
Islamist teachings while in prison and left for Syria three months after
being released in September 2012, Molins said.
In the
black bag Nemmouche was carrying when he was detained, along with a .38
special, police discovered 57 rounds of ammunition for the revolver,
more than 270 cartridges for the Kalashnikov, gun parts, a portable
GoPro camera, a digital Nikon camera, a black hood and gloves, a Nike
cap, a gas mask, and a blue nylon jacket, all objects matching the
description of the Brussels shooter.
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