Corporate Lawyer's Unlikely Mission: Defend and 'Humanize' a Hated Terrorist
Stanislas Eskenazi volunteered with Brussels’ legal aid service, typically helping petty criminals. But now he is representing Belgium’s most-wanted man.
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Stanislas Eskenazi volunteered with Brussels’ legal aid service, typically helping petty criminals. But now he is representing Belgium’s most-wanted man.
The proceedings against 10 men linked to the 2016 bombings at an airport and a subway station are the largest ever organized in Belgium and are expected to last up to eight months.
The suspects are accused of being members of the terror cell that carried out the worst peacetime attack in Belgian history.
Among the accused is Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor among the Islamic State extremists who struck the Bataclan theatre in Paris in 2015.
The largest trial in Belgian history got underway on Monday with 10 men accused of involvement in Islamist suicide bombings in Brussels in 2016 that killed 32 people and injured over 300. It began with…