Reporters held hostage in Syria appear at Nemmouche trial Two French journalists who were held hostage in Syria appear at the trial of Mehdi Nemmouche trial in Brussels. They are set to testify that Nemmouche, the main defendant in the May 2014 Jewish museum murders, had imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. IMAGES of the journalists Nicolas Hénin, Didier François and Henri Laquet, Mehdi Nemmouche's lawyer