Brussels: Europe and Arabs Today, in Brussels, the first sessions of the so-called “trial of the century” will be held to hold accountable the people who killed 32 people and injured more than 300 others in the Brussels attacks that took place in March 2016 and included the Belgian capital’s airport and a domestic train station. The individual boxes, in which the nine defendants will have to sit, threaten to immediately postpone the start of that trial. According to Belgian media, defense lawyers do not like the idea that their clients are "like animals in a glass cage". The trial will begin Monday with what is called a preliminary hearing. The jury will be assembled only on October 10, and after three days the process will already begin Everyone is waiting for the beginning of the hearings to try those involved in the terrorist act that took place six years ago and in which three of the perpetrators of the operation were killed. This attack and they were subjected to investigation throughout the last period and the trial sessions that were disrupted for several reasons, including the outbreak of the Corona epidemic and the controversy that preceded that about choosing the place of the trial and securing the trial procedures, and finally it was decided to hold it in the old headquarters of NATO in Brussels to ensure high security measures for the accused, the families of the victims and the audience In March 2020, coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the Brussels bombings, the Indictment Chamber of the Brussels Court rejected all requests for additional investigations submitted by the defense of the accused, and only one request was accepted related to the questioning of four witnesses, and it is related to reaching clarifications, regarding the reasons, which It prompted a number of young Belgians to travel to Syria and join terrorist organizations. . And the local media had previously revealed that the lawyer of one of the suspects in the file, Muhammad Abrini, who threw the explosive belt at Brussels Airport, without blowing himself up like the other two people, and also the lawyer of another suspect named Ali Al-Haddad, demanded that 20 additional investigations be conducted. .. The investigation office had requested the referral of Salah Abd al-Salam, Osama Attar, Muhammad Abrini, Sufyan Ayari, Osama Karim, Ali al-Haddad, Bilal al-Makhukhi and Hervey Payingang, of “African descent,” to the Criminal Court, and requested that Ismail and Ibrahim Farsi be referred to the Criminal Court. The Court of First Instance, while the Bureau of Investigation suggested not to prosecute three suspects, namely Faisal Shifu, Ibrahim Tabishi and Youssef Al-Ajmi. Among the 13 people, who are currently in French prisons, such as Salah Abdel Salam, the only survivor among the perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks, and there are also those who are still on the run and Belgium has put them on the international wanted list, and it is not known yet if they are alive or dead in Syria During combat operations within the ranks of extremist armed groups In mid-July 2019, it was announced that the investigations had ended, and the investigation file was handed over to the Public Prosecutor, following the end of the investigations in June of the same year, which lasted three years and three months. The invitation file includes 6,200 minutes and thousands of documents that are being translated into 9 different languages ​​representing The majority of victims