Brussels terror trial: El Makhoukhi knew where the cell’s weapons were, wiretaps show

(Brussels Times) Bilal El Makhoukhi, a defendant in the Brussels bombing trial, knew where a cache of weapons of the terrorist cell was located, according to State Security wiretaps in June 2016, transmitted to the federal prosecutor.

This information is included in the indictment, which federal prosecutors continued to read on Wednesday in the court of assises.

State Security was able to intercept a conversation between another accused, Mohamed Abrini, and Mehdi Nemmouche, the perpetrator of the attack on the Jewish Museum in Belgium on 24 May 2014, when they were both incarcerated in Bruges prison.

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