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Belgium charges 10 over 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels
2021-09-18
[IsraelTimes] Six of those indicted by Brussels prosecutors are currently on trial in La Belle France for the November 2015 attacks there

Ten men accused of involvement in the March 2016 kabooms in Brussels that killed 32 people will face trial, Belgian federal prosecutors said Friday.

Six of the suspects, including 32-year-old French-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, are currently on trial in La Belle France over the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks.

"Ten of those charged were today ordered to stand trial in the Court of Assizes by the indictment chamber in Brussels," front man Eric Van Duyse tweeted.

On March 22, 2016 two jacket wallahs blew themselves up in Brussels international airport and a third in a crowded Metro station in Brussels.

Investigators linked the gang that carried out the attacks in Belgium to the earlier attacks in Gay Paree in November 2015, which killed 130 people.

Abdeslam is the best known of the suspects, allegedly the only surviving member of the group directly involved in the Gay Paree attacks, arrested after a shootout in Brussels.

Both sets of attacks were claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group.

The trial in La Belle France over the Gay Paree attacks is already underway and, following Friday’s decision, the Belgian case is now likely to start in September 2022 and last a year.

It will be the largest criminal trial in Belgian history, held in a specially-built high-security court in the former NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
headquarters in the capital.
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