(4 Jun 2014)
Gathering in Brussels condemns deadly attack on Jewish museum
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Brussels - 25 May 2014
1. Various of gathering outside the Supreme Court condemning shooting in Jewish museum
2. Police officer walking next to gathering
Belgium Jewish Museum attack suspect wants French trial
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Versailles - 4 June 2014
3. Pan of police vehicles arriving at the Court of Appeal carrying shooting suspect Mehdi Nemmouche
4. Zoom out of police at court entrance
STORYLINE:
Over five hundred people gathered outside Belgium's Supreme Court building in Brussels on Sunday to condemn the Saturday shooting attack at the city's Jewish Museum that left four people dead.
Belgium launched a nationwide manhunt for a lone suspect and raised anti-terror measures and increased the protection for Jewish sites.
"The pain is excruciating as one can imagine," said Rabbi Michoel Rosenblum, Director of the EU Jewish Buildings in Brussels.
"The fact that the gunman is at large is very concerning and I hope we will be able to take care of that ASAP," he added.
Video of the attack showed an athletic man wearing a cap calmly walking into the Jewish Museum, pulling out a Kalashnikov shoulder rifle and starting to shoot before briskly walking away.
No one has claimed responsibility for the killings.
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The lawyer of the French suspect in the Jewish Museum killings in Brussels said on Wednesday there is no proof his client is the shooter and argued he should be tried in France and not in Belgium.
Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who has been detained since his arrest in Marseille on Friday, appeared at a court hearing in Versailles where he was notified of a European arrest warrant issued by Belgium, the first step in his extradition for the May 24 killing of three people.
The suspect's lawyer, Apolin Pepiezep, said his client is French, was arrested in France and should be judged here.
He said he and his client will defend their position at a second hearing on Thursday and suggested he may appeal the extradition demand.
Nemmouche, who spent seven years in French jails, travelled to Syria after his release and spent about a year there, apparently joining an extremist group fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, the French prosecutor has said.
He had turned to a radical form of Islam whilst in prison, the prosecutor said.
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