(Brussels Times) Close to 1,600 victims of terror attacks have applied to the Financial Assistance Commission for compensation, according to the Justice Department.
By the end of December 2019, 1,000 people had requested such assistance from the state but the number shot up when, in January, the Justice Department stressed that the deadline for filing compensation claims for some victims would expire in March 2020.
On 15 March 2017, 13 attacks in Belgium and abroad were officially recognized as acts of terrorism. The list includes the attacks at Zaventem Airport and Maalbeek Subway Station on 22 March 2016, the Jewish Museum of Brussels in May 2014, Susa Beach, Tunisia, on 26 June 2015 and Nice, on Bastille Day in 2016.
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