A Frenchman accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels went on trial on Thursday (January 10th), AFP reported.
Mehdi Nemmouche, 33, who was in court, faces a life sentence if convicted of the cold-blooded killings in the Belgian capital on May 24th, 2014, following his return from Syria's battlefields.
He is accused of killing two tourists, a volunteer and a receptionist at the museum with a pistol and an assault rifle.
Both Nemmouche and Nacer Bendrer, a fellow Frenchman aged 30 who allegedly supplied the weapons, appeared calm as the trial began in a Brussels criminal court under heavy security.
Both listened with little expression as prosecutors began reading the 200-page charge sheet.
More than 100 witnesses were due to testify at the trial, which is being attended by the victims' families and Jewish community leaders and could last until the end of February or early March.
