Woman faces killer of her son in Belgian court
Annie Adam, the mother of Alexandre
Strens, a victim of Belgium's Jewish museum attack, faced her son's alleged
killer for the first time on Friday.
Mehdi Nemmouche is on trial in
Brussels on charges of killing four people in May 2014. Adam's lawyer Christian
Dalne told AFP earlier his client had above all feared "seeing the
face" of his alleged murderer, who still causes her "anxiety
attacks".
Six days after the attack, Nemmouche
was arrested in the southern French port city of Marseille. Bendrer was
arrested in Marseille in December 2014.
The prosecution said Nemmouche's
fingerprints or DNA were found on the pistol and Kalashnikov used in the
attack, weapons seized when he was arrested.
In the fast-paced video, which lasts around a
minute, he starts off firing a pistol and finishes with a Kalashnikov assault
rifle, killing two Irsaeli tourists and a French volunteer.
Adrien Masset, lawyer of the Jewish
Museum of Belgium, said savagery of the murderer's reveals the killings were
carried out in cold blood.
Strens, who grew up in a family of
eight, changed his original name Radwan al-Atrache after a Belgian adopted him
in 1992, Belgian newspaper Le Soir reported.
The court hearings will include
testimonies of relatives of Israeli tourists, who were killed, by the end of
January.
