Trial opens in Algeria jihadist beheading of French mountaineer

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The trial of the men accused of killing mountain guide instructor Herve Gourdel begins today in Algiers. The trial opened before an Algiers court Thursday in the 2014 kidnapping and beheading of a French mountaineer claimed by a jihadist faction affiliated to the Islamic State group. Just one of the alleged kidnappers of 55-year-old mountain guide instructor Herve Gourdel was in court for the trial -- the other seven are being tried in absentia. Members of Gourdel's family, including his partner Francoise Grandclaude, were in the public gallery. The main defendant Abdelmalek Hamzaoui was brought to court by ambulance in a wheelchair accompanied by a medical team and watched over by police sp

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