(AFP) Belgium’s prosecutor’s office on Thursday said Salah Abdeslam, a Frenchman convicted of a 2015 jihadist massacre in Paris, should be found guilty as “co-perpetrator” of the 2016 bomb attacks in Brussels.
“He knowingly helped the cell” that carried out the attacks at Brussels’ airport and a metro station on March 22, 2016, that killed 32 people, prosecutor Paule Somers told a court trying Abdeslam and eight other defendants.
As such, he should be convicted accordingly, despite being arrested four days before they were carried out, the prosecutor said.
“There is no need to know the details, the date and the specific target to be co-perpetrator of a terrorist attack,” Somers argued.
