Mehdi Nemmouche is not only the alleged murderer of the Jewish Museum in Brussels. He was also the jailer of French hostages held in Syria at the beginning of this year. The information was transmitted by the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB) to the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutor reveals the newspaper Le Monde. Information confirmed by a former hostage Nicolas Henin who told the magazine Le Point, her employer, that Nemmouche had been one of his captors during his detention. The alleged killer of the Jewish Museum in Brussels has “occupied” the journalist between July and December 2013, according to Le Point.
The information, collected according to a police source when the four French journalists hostage in Syria released in April – Nicolas Henin, Peter Torres, Didier Francis and Edward Eliasson acknowledged Nemmouche on pictures after his arrest in late May, was to remain secret.
But the weekly Le Point published excerpts of his testimony “chilling” after revelations of the World. Marie-Laure Ingouf, lawyer Nicolas Henin, confirmed to AFP that “Nemmouche was one of his captors.” “All the hostages confirmed. They lived with him for several months,” she has said.
“When Nemmouche did not sing, he tortured”
In the first excerpts of his testimony, Nicolas Henin Nemmouche describes a “member of a small group of French whose coming terrorized the fifty Syrian prisoners in neighboring cells. Each evening, blows began to rain in the room in which I myself was interviewed. The torture lasted all night until the dawn prayer. Aux screams of prisoners sometimes met yelps in French. ”
“When Nemmouche did not sing, he tortured,” describes the reporter, whose story evokes according to Le Point an “egocentric jailer and storyteller for whom jihad is ultimately that an excuse to satisfy his morbid thirst for knowledge. A lost young man and perverse. ”
Memories of the hostages do not match
Didier François, the one of four journalists who were kidnapped in Syria with Nicolas Henin, the revelations in the press “is a real problem for the investigation.” “It’s irresponsible,” said Libération Didier François, a journalist for Europe 1 “I think it’s dangerous to go out this information. This poses a real problem for the investigation, for witnesses and for hostages stayed there. “” Unfortunately, this serves to alert other kidnappers on the fact that the French services holding items on the members of this terrorist group who perpetrated the attacks. Suddenly, it will allow them to protect themselves This endangers the work of specialists against terrorism and French citizens, “he said.
Contacted by Reuters, the Paris prosecutor said he would not comment. For its part, the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said the police had “sent for trial of evidence suggesting that (Nemmouche) could be the jailer of our hostages,” confirming Information World. “It is justice to do its job. This fatal character must be judged, he will be,” said the minister.
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This Franco-Algerian, 29, arrested on May 30 in Marseille when he got off a bus from Belgium, was delivered late July the Belgian authorities. Journalists Didier François, Edouard Elias, Henin and Pierre Nicolas Torres, was released in April after spending ten months in the hands of an Islamic group in Syria.
Mehdi Nemmouche, which is silent on the facts alleged against him, is scheduled to appear Sept. 12 in front of the Council Chamber in Brussels. This instruction court must decide whether to extend his detention, according to his Belgian lawyer, Henri Laquay.
In France, a preliminary investigation was opened by the prosecutor of Paris in 2013 for “kidnapping in connection with a terrorist enterprise” following the abduction of French journalists Syria. The other was after the arrest of Mehdi Nemmouche for “murder, attempted murder, possession and transportation of weapon in connection with a terrorist enterprise”.
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