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Suspect held over Brussels killings
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Suspect held over Brussels killings

by Joseph Anthony
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A Frenchman has been arrested in Marseille over a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead, officials say.

Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.

He was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun similar to the ones used in the May 24 attack.

Security was tightened at Jewish sites across Belgium following the killings.

Mr Nemmouche, a French national who is believed to be from the northern town of Roubaix, is also suspected of having been with Islamists militants in Syria last year.

Brussels Jewish Museum shooting – The suspect
Belgian police earlier released security camera footage showing the suspect they were hunting
He was arrested during a customs check at the Saint-Charles train station in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday.

He had been on board a bus that was travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels, AFP news agency reports.

An official the Paris prosecutor’s office told the Associated Press that ballistics tests would be carried out to determine whether the weapons he was carrying were the same as those used in the Brussels attack.

Condemned

Four people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the museum in the busy Sablon area of the Belgian capital. They were an Israeli couple in their 50s, a French female volunteer and a Belgian employee of the museum.

The Belgian prosecutor’s office the victims were struck by bullets in the face or throat, in what Brussels Mayor Yvan Mayeur said was probably a “terrorist act”.

One person was detained after he drove away from the scene around the time of the attack, but he was later released.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, who was one of the first people to arrive at the scene, said: “You cannot help think that when we see a Jewish museum, you think of an anti-Semitic act. But the investigation will have to show the causes.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Francois Hollande also condemned the killings.

Belgium has a Jewish population of some 42,000, about half of whom live in the capital

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