(AFP) Many hundreds of those who survived the 2016 jihadist attacks on Brussels’ metro and airport were left maimed, traumatised or bereaved.
As the trial begins for defendants accused of plotting Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre — which left 32 dead — some will take the chance to have their accounts heard.
Here are some of their stories, as told to AFP:
The airport worker
Philippe Vandenberghe was working in the staff area of Brussels’ Zaventem airport on March 22, 2016, when two suicide bombers detonated their devices in the terminal.
The 51-year-old computer technician has a first aid certificate and immediately set out to help.
