Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
Eight members of the jury in the 2016 terrorists trial receive support from a psychiatrist. The Ministry of Justice pays the costs of 10 sessions. The system is also open to judges and prison guards. According to the Belgian News Agency, which added, “Jury members often have to hear horrific details in court and have to make difficult decisions, which can lead to stress and mental health problems.” Those affected are entitled to receive 10 free sessions with a psychiatrist. Eleven people received this support, eight of them from the trial of those involved in the Brussels terrorist attacks file and three from other trials.
In 2023, 91 judges and prison guards also accepted the offer of support. For these professionals, the system started earlier and is better known to the target group, a Ministry of Justice spokesman told Belgian-Flemish television broadcaster VRT. ​
32 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the two terrorist attacks that took place on March 22, 2016 in Brussels. It included the Belgian capital's airport and a domestic train station, and the trial, which lasted for several months, ended in July of this year.
  In September, the Brussels Court issued rulings in a file known as the Trial of the Century in Belgium, and three of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016 were sentenced to life imprisonment. According to the Criminal Court in the Belgian capital, three of the participants in the crime, who were also sentenced to life imprisonment, did not receive the maximum sentence.
The court announced in July that six of the ten suspects in the terrorism trial were fully guilty. Two suspects were found partly guilty, and two others were acquitted.
According to Belgian media, the Brussels Criminal Court surprisingly ruled not to punish Salah Abdel Salam for the attacks that occurred in Brussels and Zaventem Airport. None of the eight convicted terrorists will lose their citizenship
The rulings were as follows
Muhammad Abrini: Thirty years in prison + five years on probation
Salah Abdel Salam: No additional penalty (previously sentenced to 20 years in prison)
Ali Al-Haddad Al-Sufi: Twenty years in prison + ten years under supervision
Hervé Bainga Muherwa: ten years in prison and a fine
Osama Karim: Life imprisonment + ten years probation
Bilal Al-Mukhokhi: Life imprisonment + ten years of probation
Osama Attar: Life imprisonment + fourteen years of probation
Sofiane Ayari: No additional punishment (previously sentenced to 20 years in prison)