(Brussels Times) Three months since Belgium’s biggest trial started, procedures will progress to a new phase that will see around 100 victims and their relatives share their testimonies this week.
On Monday morning, medical experts, including a rehabilitation doctor and a psychiatrist, will give testimony about the impact of the attacks on the victims before the first three victims of the 2016 attacks take to the floor in the afternoon. The attacks were the deadliest to ever take place in Belgium.
“It is important that we do this. This way we bring the process back to that harrowing day … Testifying will reopen a wound that has been healing for seven years,” Philippe Van Steenkiste, the president of the victims’ association V-Europe and who lost his sister in the attacks, told De Standaard.
