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2023-09-15 19:59:01

Eight men given lengthy prison time over 2016 suicide bombings at airport and metro that killed 32 people and were claimed by Islamic State

Terms ranged up to life in prison and included high-profile culprits Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini

The suicide bombings on 22 March, 2016 at Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system killed 32 people.

A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 militant bombings in Brussels, ending the country's largest-ever criminal trial. The suicide bombings on March 22, 2016 at Brussels' main airport and on the metro system killed 32 people and were claimed by ISIS. French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini -- already sentenced to life in jail by France for a 2015 massacre in Paris -- were the highest-profile of si...

Belgian justice sentenced on Friday Mohamed Abrini, "the man in the hat" who had accompanied the jihadists who died as suicide bombers at Brussels airport in March 2016. The Assize Court referred to a previous Belgian conviction handed down in 2018 and did not want to impose an additional sentence. The court ruled that Abdeslam's participation in the preparation of the attacks was a related offence to the shooting that occurred on rue du Dries, Brussels, on March 15, 2016, when he fl...

A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the countrys largest-ever criminal trial.

A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the country's largest-ever criminal trial.Krayem was handed a life sentence, along with Bilal El Makhoukhi and Oussama Atar. 

A Brussels court on Tuesday convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 jihadist bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country's largest-ever criminal trial.

A Belgian court on Tuesday (July 25) convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges for the 2016 bombings in Brussels that killed 35 people, and injured hundreds. The trial revived painful memories for the nearly 1,000 registered to attend. They included those who lost loved ones or were injured and witnesses to the bombings.