STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- He is suspected in the May 24 shooting in which four people were killed
- Prosecutors say he recently spent a year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist
- The 29-year-old has been extradited to Belgium from France
Arrest made in Jewish Museum shooting
He is Mehdi Nemmouche,
arrested in France for the May 24 attack. Nemmouche recently spent a
year in Syria and is a radicalized Islamist, French officials said.
When French police
arrested Nemmouche on May 30, they also seized a Kalashnikov rifle
wrapped in a flag bearing the ISIS insignia, according to prosecutors.
A Belgian Federal Police
spokeswoman, Tine Hollevoet, confirmed that the 29-year-old Frenchman
had been extradited to Belgium on Tuesday morning but could not give
further information for
security reasons.
Four people were killed in the daytime attack in central Brussels.
Two of the victims were
an Israeli couple in their 50s from Tel Aviv, Israel's Foreign Ministry
said. The third victim was a French woman and the fourth was a young
man.
Images from the museum showed the gunman behind the deadly attack approaching the building, opening fire, and walking away.
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