(National-UAE) Lawyers of victims of the 2016 Brussels bombing attack on Monday said they had been “taken hostage” by defendants’ repeated walkouts and protests against security measures since the opening of the trial this month.
Lawyers of four defendants — Mohamed Abrini, Sofiane Ayari, Ali El Haddad Asufi and Osama Krayem — have said they would not comply with cross-examinations, scheduled to start on Wednesday, as long as the issue of “humiliating” security measures during their transfer to court was not solved.
But Maryse Alie, defending Life4Brussels, a group of victims of the triple suicide attacks that killed 32 and injured hundreds, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, said that the situation was becoming “intolerable.”
