(AFP) Defendants on trial over the 2016 Brussels attacks recounted Wednesday the anger they felt at the aerial bombardments of the Islamic State group by an international coalition.
Nine defendants are currently on trial over the March 22, 2016, suicide bomb attacks claimed by the jihadist group that killed 32 people at Brussels airport and the city’s metro.
Investigators believe the IS cell behind the attacks was linked to the group that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks, which left 130 dead.
Sofien Ayari, already sentenced to 30 years in jail over the Paris attacks, went to fight with IS in 2014 before being wounded and hospitalised in the Syrian city, Raqqa.
