Belgian King Visits Jewish Museum Months After Attack

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Belgium's King Philippe visited the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Friday in a show of support for the Jewish community and the relatives of four people killed in a gun attack there in May.Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, who had spent more than a year fighting with Islamic extremists in Syria, is awaiting trial for the attack on charges of "murder in a terrorist context."The king's hour-long visit to the museum is a "clear signal to the Jewish Museum, to the victims of the May 24 attack and their relatives, and to the Belgian Jewish community as a whole," a palace spokesman told AFP.King Philippe released a statement the night of the shootings in which he expressed his dismay and anger over the attack against the Jewish community.

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