Mehdi Nemmouche now faces up to 30 years in prison for killing four people at point-blank range at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014. 9News
Security camera video from the Jewish museum's entrance showed a man wearing a baseball cap and armed with a revolver shoot the man and woman in the back of the heads at point-blank range.
French authorities also allege he was one of the jihadists who kept four French journalists hostage until they were freed in April 2014 in Syria.US President Donald Trump has demanded that European countries take back their citizens who went to the Middle East to fight in Syria, but many countries have voiced concern over how to bring home-grown IS extremists to trial.
IS prisoners could be tortured or executed if they remain in jail in Syria or Iraq, and the EU opposes the death penalty. But few European countries have embassies in Syria or Iraq, let alone extradition treaties.
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