(AFP) Suspects charged in connection with the 2016 Brussels suicide bombings will be tried next year in the former NATO headquarters in the city, Justice Minister Koen Geens said Friday.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed 32 people and wounded more than 340 others on March 22, 2016, at Brussels airport and a city metro station.
“The start of the trial is planned for the year 2020. The start date will be communicated in the autumn via a statement,” Geens said in a statement.
Investigators say the attacks were ordered by militants in war-torn Syria and organised by a French and Belgian team of jihadists that has also been linked to the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015, which killed 130 people.
