(Brussels Times) The third day of the 2016 Brussels terror attack trial was marred in controversy on Wednesday as five suspects left the courtroom to protest the conditions of their transfer. The Ministry of Justice has already dismissed the plea to relax these conditions.
Five of the ten defendants — Salah Abdeslam, Sofien Ayari, Osama Krayem, Ali El Haddad Asufi and Mohamed Abrini — refused to stand as they are tried for the March 2016 bombings that claimed 32 lives at the Maelbeek metro station and Brussels Airport in Zaventem.
They disrupted proceedings at the Justitia site in Haren where the trial is being held, leaving the courtroom to protest the conditions of their transfer from the prison to the courtroom each day.
