Said Al Nasr (alt. Said al-Nasser; Nassar Saeed, ar, سعيد النصر) was a
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
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Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
known for carrying out the 28 July
1980 Antwerp summer camp attack, in which he attacked a group of 40 Jewish children waiting with their families for a bus to take them to summer camp with hand grenades. One boy was killed, and eight others were seriously wounded.
Background
Al Nasr was born in 1955. He was convicted in
Belgium
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in 1980, for throwing two
hand grenade
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s into a group of
Jewish
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children waiting for a
bus
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in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, on July 27, 1980.
He was carrying a Moroccan passport at the time of his arrest.
In the
Silco incident
The Silco Incident involves the kidnapping of the Belgian-French family Houtekins-Kets by the Libyan government from their yacht ''Silco'' in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea on August 1, 1985.
Capture and release
The Belgian part of the fam ...
, the Belgian government "traded" the jailed Said Al Nasr for members of the family Houtekins-Kets in
1990
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, a Belgian-French family kidnapped in
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
— a demand of the
Abu Nidal
Sabri Khalil al-Banna (May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his ''nom de guerre'' Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinians, Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal ...
militant group.
References
1955 births
Living people
Terrorism in Belgium
Abu Nidal attacks
Islam and antisemitism
Palestinian terrorist incidents in Europe
Palestinian people imprisoned abroad
Prisoners and detainees of Belgium
Terrorist incidents in Belgium in 1980
Palestinian people convicted of murder
Murderers of children
1980 murders in Europe
20th-century attacks on synagogues and Jewish communal organizations
Antwerp Bombing
Jewish Belgian history
Antisemitism in Belgium
Jews and Judaism in Antwerp
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