A 39-year-old French Islamist accused of torturing hostages in Syria has claimed in court that he had never been in charge of foreign captives in Isis prisons.
Mehdi Nemmouche made the denial at the start of his trial in Paris where he stands accused of being one of the most sadistic jailers of French, British, American and journalists and human rights workers of other nationalities captured by Islamist State terrorist movement in 2013.
