Itongadol.- 29-year-old Mehdi Nemmouche arrested in possession of weapons of the same type used in attack that killed 4; according to reports, he was active with jihadist elements in Syria in 2013.
French police have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the shooting deaths last weekend of four people at Brussels\’ Jewish Museum, official sources in Belgium and France said on Sunday.
The 29-year-old Frenchman was arrested in the southern French city of Marseilles on Friday and had a Kalashnikov and another gun with him, a French police source said. The man, from the northern city of Roubaix, had been in jail in 2012. AFP quoted sources close to the investigation as naming the suspect as Mehdi Nemmouche.
French media reported that the man was suspected of having stayed in Syria with jihadist groups in 2013.
French President Francois Hollande confirmed a suspect had been arrested and said France was determined to do all it could to stop radicalized youths from carrying out attacks.
"We will monitor those jihadists and make sure that when they come back from a fight that is not theirs, and that is definitely not ours … to make sure that when they come back they cannot do any harm," Hollande told reporters.