A man found guilty in Belgium of recruiting extremists was stripped Tuesday (October 23rd) of his Belgian citizenship, a rare move which the country's Flemish nationalists want applied more broadly in terrorism cases, AFP reported.
Fouad Belkacem, a 36-year-old born in Belgium to Moroccan parents, was sentenced in 2015 to 12 years in prison for heading "a terrorist group", Sharia4Belgium, which sent extremists to Syria.
An appeals court in Antwerp withdrew his citizenship on grounds "he seriously failed to meet his obligations as a Belgian citizen and posed a permanent threat to public security", Belgian media reported.
