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All three Brussels Jewish museum shooting suspects must stand trial, judge rules

Four people were killed in 2014 gun attack

January 25, 2018 15:28
Mehdi Nemmouche is the suspected gunman in the 2014 museum attack
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All three men accused of involvement in a 2014 gun attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels must stand trial, a Belgian judge has ordered. 

Two Israeli tourists and two museum workers were killed when a gunman entered the building in the centre of the Belgian capital and opened fire with a Kalashnikov rifle.

Mehdi Nemmouche, the suspected gunman, has been in custody awaiting trial since he was arrested in the French coastal town of Marseille a week after the attack.

But a judge ruled on Thursday that two other men – Nacer Bendrer and Mounir Atallah – should face trial alongside him, public broadcaster RTBF reported.