(AFP) - The trial opened Thursday of a "very polite" Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead on May 24, 2014 at a Jewish museum in Brussels, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in
Europe.
Mehdi Nemmouche faces a life sentence if convicted. Both Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, a fellow Frenchman aged 30 who allegedly supplied the weapons, were due to hear the 200-page charge sheet against them in the first two days of the trial being held in a Brussels criminal court under heavy security. Both have previously denied charges of "terrorist murder" for the anti-Semitic 82-second shooting spree.