FOUR months after a shooting in which four people died, the Brussels Jewish Museum opened its doors to the public again yesterday in a solemn ceremony attended by Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.
The museum had been closed since the May 24 attack by a gunman who opened fire in the museum with a rifle, killing an Israeli couple, a French woman and a Belgian man.
French national Mehdi Nemmouche is suspected of carrying out the attack, say prosecutors in France.
Di Rupo said at the re-opening ceremony: "Belgium has strengthened and will intensify further its European and international cooperation to combat more effectively the networks and individuals that threaten our democracies."
Yesterday's opening coincided with the European Day of Jewish Culture, and a plaque with the names of the four victims has been put up by the entrance hall.
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