HAARETZ
by Anshel Pfeffer and Haaretz
June 1, 2014
Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French citizen, arrested in Marseilles carrying a Kalashnikov rifle; suspect maintained right to silence during first 24 hours of interrogation.
French police have arrested a suspect over the shooting last week at the Brussels Jewish Museum who apparently has ties to jihadi elements in Syria, a local media reported on Sunday.
French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, was arrested Friday at a routine customs inspection at the Saint-Charles bus station in Marseilles, while he was on a bus from Amsterdam via Brussels.
Nemmouche had in his possession an AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle, the same type used by the Brussels shooter, a GoPro portable camera, and ammunition and a revolver, also similar to those used in the shooting. Among his packed clothes, Nemmouche had a baseball cap that resembled that worn by the shooter seen on CCTV footage of the attack. Local media also reported that he had in his bag press clippings about the Brussels Jewish museum shooting. Three people were killed in the May 24 attack, included a French national and Israeli couple Miriam and Emanuel Riva. A Belgian museum employee was critically wounded.
Nemmouche, a resident of the city of Roubaix, was known to French security services and is suspected to have traveled to Syria to train and fight with jihadist elements in 2013, returning only in March 2014, Le Figaro reported. Police suspect he may have turned to radical Islam during a jail sentence for robbery, which he served in 2012, La Figaro reported.
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