Mohamed Abrini, “the man in the hat” who accompanied the jihadists who died in suicide bombings at Brussels airport on March 22, 2016, was sentenced Friday evening to 30 years in prison for his participation in these attacks.
Concerning Salah Abdeslam, one of his co-defendants, the Assize Court referred to a previous Belgian conviction handed down in 2018 (20 years for a shooting with police officers in March 2016) and did not want to impose an additional sentence. The French jihadist, however, remains considered by Belgian justice as one of the co-perpetrators of the Brussels attacks.