Syria Hostage Names Brussels Suspect As Captor

A French journalist held hostage for months in Syria has identified a man being held on suspicion of an attack on a Jewish museum in Brussels as one of his captors.

Nicolas Henin, who was released alongside three other journalists back in April, claimed Mehdi Nemmouche was among his captors for five of the 10 months he spent in the hands of a Syrian extremist group.

Mr Henin said he had recognised Nemmouche from video and audio recordings shown to him after his arrest over the Brussels attack.

Prosecutors said Mehdi Nemmouche spent a year in Syria

Nemmouche, who is of Franco-Algerian origin, was detained in France on May 30 and extradited to Belgium on suspicion of shooting dead four people at the Jewish Museum several days earlier.

The victims included two Israeli tourists, a French female volunteer and a Belgian employee at the museum.

Mr Henin described Nemmouche as a sadistic man, who took pleasure in beating him.

"After beating me up, he would show me his gloves. He was very proud of his motorcycle gloves. He told me he had bought them especially for me," he told a news conference at the offices of the French weekly Le Point.

Mr Henin was reunited with his family after his release on April 20

"I do not know if other Western hostages were mistreated but I could hear him torture Syrian prisoners."

While in captivity, he was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff who were both beheaded by extremists in the Islamic State group in recent weeks.

He and fellow French journalists Didier Francois, Edouard Elias and Pierre Torres were held from June 2013 until their release on April 20.

All four had previously declined to publish their stories for fear of reprisals on other hostages.

Four people were killed in the shooting at the Jewish Museum

However Le Point published excerpts of a piece written by Mr Henin after the information was released by French daily Le Monde. 

"When Nemmouche was not singing, he was torturing," Mr Henin wrote in Le Point.

Mr Henin's account has been questioned by Nemmouche's lawyer, Apolin Pepiezep, who said his client was never asked whether he had been to Syria or about his possible role as a captor during his interrogation.

But prosecutors say he spent a year in Syria before returning to Europe.

Nemmouche is due to appear before a Belgian court on September 12.

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