France, Syria's former hostage, journalist Nicolas Henin, revealed Thursday, Nemmouche Mehdi, allegedly French jihad murderer of the Jewish Museum in Brussels, it was one of his presence and beaten while in custody.
Hostage to Syria with his colleagues Torres and Didier Francois Pierre Eduardo Elias, which was released in April, the reporter called the name of the one he knew as "Abu Omar bats" to see photos Nemmouche his arrest in late May
"Mehdi Nemmouche insult me," Nicolas Henin said in a press conference in Paris. If he does not know whether other Western hostages reached Nemmouche admitted: "There Syrian torture of prisoners" in the same prison.
"If I do not sing, tortured," writes Nicolas Henin also evidence that publishes the weekly Le Point, his employer.
His colleagues and he was in the "Contact from July to December 2013 'with Nemmouche young" a big ego, "" self-centered and story for this Jihad is finally an excuse to satisfy your morbid thirst for fame. Younger Missing and distorted. "
"Apparently he was not in Syria, some of the ideals to fight, but most of all, perhaps, by the recognition that we can achieve a kind of deadly stampede that he instigated the plan to achieve" a proven.
The information must be kept secret, but it is said that the "information" be back after the revelation that Nemmouche World "was one of the prison guards Western hostages" of the Islamic state in Syria (EI). Point after "chilling" evidence of his reporters.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve intelligence confirmed that, as the government, "the courts of the evidence that (Nemmouche) may be the supervision of our hostages." He did not elaborate.
- The problem that the research "-
"This is not just his work. Be assessed depending on the character, it will be," said the minister.
The discovery of the "irresponsible," said Didier Francois, a fellow sufferer Nicolas Henin. "This presents a problem for the research, witnesses and hostages remain," said a release.
Nemmouche, 29, is in Belgium, where he charged with the murder of four suspects in the name of jihad celebrated the Jewish Museum in Brussels on 24 May.
For possession of a weapon, with the label "street", an acronym of the Islamic State (EI) and the film of the assassination of the Jewish Museum during a routine check in Marseille on May 30 arrested d French Algerian descent, the party that the Jihad Syria under EI, end of July was delivered in France, the Belgian courts.
Shortly after the release of four French journalists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who announced his presence spoke some French. Hundreds of Westerners have not stopped Jihad in Syria.
Westerners are also an unknown number of hostages in the hands of the IE after the execution of American journalist, with whom Mr. James Foley and Didier Francois Henin said retenus- and Stephen Sotloff.
Nemmouche who know nothing about the alleged against him is expected to be released on September 12 before the Chamber Council in Brussels says facts. This statement must decide whether to extend his detention, his Belgian lawyer, Henri Laquay the court.
In France, a preliminary investigation by the prosecutor of Paris 2013 "in connection with the kidnapping of a terrorist enterprise" after the abduction of French journalists in Syria. Secondly, after being arrested Nemmouche "murder, attempted murder, possession and transportation of weapons to a terrorist enterprise".
