A French court handed a five-year jail sentence for attempted extortion to Nacer Bendrer, the alleged accomplice in a 2014 terror attack at a Jewish museum in Belgium.
Frenchman Bendrer, 30, appearing in court in the southern city of Marseille denied the accusation, made by the brother of a local drug dealer, that he and another man — one of them brandishing a Kalashnikov — had demanded weapons and 100,000 euros.
Bendrer has been accused in Belgium of being an accomplice to fellow Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, who will stand trial in Brussels for the killing of four people at a Jewish museum four years ago in a jihadist terror attack.
Their trial is expected to take place later this year or early next year.
