(AFP) Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life. Now, six and a half years later, Brussels will host its biggest ever criminal trial.
Jury selection begins on Wednesday ahead of hearings into the charges against the nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in the March 2016 suicide bombings.
The case will be heard in the former headquarters of the NATO military alliance, temporarily converted into a huge high-security court complex.
Hundreds of witnesses and victims will testify in the months to come, some still hopeful that telling their story will offer them a measure of closure.
