Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Today, after the formation of the jury ended, the trial of those suspected of involvement in carrying out terrorist attacks, including Brussels Airport and one of the internal / internal train stations in the Belgian capital, which killed 32 people and injured more than 300 others, has already begun. Ten suspects are being tried there for what happened that day.
According to the media in Brussels, the defense lawyers let the process run its course. They said there would be no delays due to the strict security measures. At least not now. They hope that there will be an informal solution. This is after the defendants complained in yesterday's session about the way they were brought to the sessions, and some threatened to boycott the trial.
During Tuesday's hearing, many of the defendants requested a copy of the indictment for better follow-up. Some of them also demanded to have pens in order to take notes. And that after the prosecution began to read nearly 500 pages, which would take three days.

Before the indictment begins to be read, the presiding judge first swears the oath to the jurors. "She takes the opportunity to explain again what is expected of the jury," she said.
They must reach a coherent and proven verdict, and they may base this only on what they hear in the criminal court. They must be independent and impartial. "But without being naive."
During the reading, the prosecution described how the bombs exploded at the airport and at the metro station and what devastation they caused. "We saw in footage from the airport how Aberni took cover and plugged his ears. Obviously to avoid injury in the second explosion, which he knew could follow at any moment. "
The session resumes.
Philip Vanstenkeste, director of victims' association V-Europe, said he was a little surprised by the defendants' complaints about their conditions of detention. "My first reaction was to think about what we heard in the Jewish Museum trial about the way ISIS treated its captives," he said on Tuesday morning. Vanstenkisti refers to the testimonies of French journalist Nicolas Henin during the trial in the file of the Jewish Museum in Brussels.
The director of the V-Europe Victims' Association considers the reading of the indictment an important moment for the victims. "It is important for us to see any reaction from the defendants." Reading the act on Tuesday is also expected to be emotionally heavy. "You have to take some distance from that to be able to follow the process. The prosecution laid out how the attacks in Paris, their repercussions and the hunt for the rest of the terrorist cell led to the attacks in Brussels. A little break followed. Then the prosecution went back to reading the indictment

In the rooms set up for civil parties in the trial building, there are hardly any people on Tuesday. Many of the victims had previously indicated that they were reluctant to attend the trial. They could also follow the process via web radio. There are several civil parties in the same courtroom.
The sessions were previously interrupted because of the boxes allocated to the defendants, which were removed by a court decision and resumed yesterday in light of the modifications made to the trial hall inside the old NATO headquarters in Brussels, which was designated for the trial of those involved in the terrorist act that took place six years ago, in which three of the perpetrators were killed. The operation, and the fourth defendant is still alive after he retracted from blowing himself up at the last moment. A number of people suspected of participating with him in preparing to carry out this attack were arrested, and they were interrogated throughout the last period, and the trial sessions that were disrupted for several reasons, including the outbreak of the Corona epidemic and controversy Previously, it was about choosing the place for the trial and securing the trial procedures. Finally, it was decided to hold it in the old NATO headquarters in Brussels to ensure high security measures for the accused, the families of the victims, and the attendees.

In March 2020, coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the Brussels bombings, the Indictment Chamber of the Brussels Court rejected all additional investigation requests submitted by the defense of the defendants, and only one request related to the interrogation of four of the witnesses was accepted, and it was related to reaching clarifications regarding the reasons that It pushed a number of Belgian youths 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 detonating himself like the other two people, as well as 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-Mukhoukhi and Hervé Baengang, of African descent, to the Criminal Court, and requested the referral of Ismail and Ibrahim Farsi to the Criminal Court. Court of First Instance, while the Bureau of Investigation suggested not prosecuting three of the suspects, namely Faisal Shifu, Ibrahim Tabishi and Youssef Al-Ajmi.

Among the 13 people are those 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 placed by Belgium on the international wanted list, and it is not known yet if he was alive or died 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, after the completion 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 the victims.