(Brussels Times) The daily body searches that defendants had to undergo at the 22 March 2016 terror trial are now banned, the Brussels interim relief judge has ruled.
The information, shared by VRT Nieuws, was confirmed to Belga News Agency on Thursday by the French-speaking court of first instance in Brussels. The judge did, however, endorse the practice of blindfolding defendants during their transfers.
Since the beginning of the trial of the Brussels and Zaventem attacks, the detained defendants have complained about the conditions of their transfer from the Haren prison to the Justitia, where the hearings take place. They were strip-searched, made to genuflect and blindfolded during the transfers.
