(VRT) A judge has ruled that six accused in the 22 March terror attacks trial no longer have to undergo daily strip searches, unless carefully motivated. The defendants had claimed they were being confronted with humiliating treatment when being transferred from prison to the court room and took the case to a separate court. They won the case on this account, but the judge did not follow them on other accounts in the summary judgement.
The trial concerns the terror attacks at Brussels Airport and the Maalbeek metro station in the capital on 22 March 2016. It has been a bumpy road so far. First, the accused refused to sit in the closed glass boxes claiming this felt like a cage. A new glass box [was] built. The trial had to be postponed, but could start after all.
