In the trial of the Islamist attacks in Brussels in 2016, a jury of jurors found several of the ten defendants guilty of terrorist murder. This was announced by court president Laurence Massart on Tuesday evening in the Belgian capital. The penalties will be decided in September.
The terrorist attacks on March 22, 2016 at Zaventem Airport and a metro station in the Belgian capital killed 32 people and injured 340. A total of ten men have been charged with the attacks in Brussels. It is assumed that one of them has now probably died in Syria.
Eight defendants are charged with 32 counts of terrorist murder, attempted terrorist murder of 695 people and involvement in the activities of a terrorist organization. The public prosecutor only charges the ninth with the third point.
In a series of attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris, extremists killed 130 people and injured 350 others. The attacks in Paris and Brussels were engineered by the same terrorist cell, which is why six of those convicted in Paris are also on trial in Brussels, including Salah Abdeslam.