(Brussels Times) A Brussels court has stripped six foreign fighters of their Belgian nationality, after being sentenced to prison in absentia for their involvement in the terror group Sharia4Belgium.
The six fighters all had Belgo-Moroccan nationality and could not be notified of the court’s decision since they no longer have valid addresses in Belgium, De Standaard reports.
They all left for Syria and were tried and sentenced in absentia during the 2015 trial on the group Sharia4Belgium, where 44 people were sentenced for participating in a terrorist organisation.
The group includes Bilal Elhamdaoui, also known as Abu Mansour, who was reportedly in charge of spreading propaganda for the extremist group Sharia4Belgium, which recruited and radicalised several people in Belgium before it dissolved ahead of the trial.
