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Belgium pays €350,000 to former al-Qaeda terrorist after illegal extradition to US

by | Nov 16, 2025 | JPost | 0 comments

Nizar Trabelsi pictured as he leaves the closed center for illegal immigrants in Merksplas on Wednesday 22 October 2025. The Court of Cassation rejected the appeals lodged by the Belgian state against the decision to release Nizar Trabelsi, who was sentenced to ten years in prison in Belgium in 2004 (photo credit: LUC CLAESSEN / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP) (Photo by LUC CLAESSEN/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images)
Trabelsi – formerly a Tunisian professional footballer – was arrested in September 2001 for his role in a planned attack on Belgium’s Kleine-Brogel air base