20-year imprisonment for killers of Belgian official

The criminal court in Tunis on Tuesday sentenced all Tunisians convicted in the killing of Belgian deputy premier Andre Kolz in 1991 in Belgium to 20 year imprisonment sentences.

Court chairman Hamadi Bindakhil, who read the sentence following a three-hour debate, said the court has found Abdul Mejuid al-Alami and Abdul Jalil Bin Ibrahim guilty under charges of killing Kolz, a prominent historical leader of the Belgian Phrancophonic party who was killed on July 18, 1991 in the garage of his girlfriend's building in Kuwant in the east of Belgium.