(Reuters) Three suspected members of Islamic State’s Afghan branch ISIS-Khorasan detained in raids in Belgium were charged on Friday with planning a terrorist attack, the state prosecutor’s office said. Four other people detained during house searches across the country on Thursday were […]
(AP) On the eve of the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, France’s interior minister thanked Belgium Thursday for a string of raids that led to the detention of seven people for questioning over suspected terrorist activities. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said […]
(European Conservative) On Wednesday, February 7th, French Justice Minister Éric [Dupond]-Moretti announced the arrival on French soil of the terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who until then had been imprisoned in Belgium, to serve an “irreducible life imprisonment” (perpétuité incompressible) — a penalty that […]
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back to France. Abdeslam is the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that […]
(European Conservative) Five years after the Islamist attacks that cost a gendarmerie officer his life, the trial against the terrorism co-conspirators opened in Paris this week. Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame died at the hands of terrorists in the Islamist attacks in Trèbes and […]
(Radio France) The trial of suspects allegedly complicit in planning the 2018 Trèbes and Carcassonne terrorist attacks in the south of France opens on Monday in Paris. Three men were shot dead in a car park and a supermarket, and a female […]
(AFP) The Brussels appeals court on Tuesday halted the Belgian authorities from sending convict Salah Abdeslam to France to continue serving a life term for the 2015 Paris terror attacks. Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the jihadist cell that killed 130 […]
(Brussels Times) The final curtain has fallen over the biggest-ever trial in Belgium as none of the parties involved in the trial of the 2016 Brussels terror attacks has appealed in cassation, meaning that the sentences handed down by the court on […]
(AFP) A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The suicide bombings on March 22, 2016, at Brussels’ main airport […]
(National-UAE) A Belgian court on Wednesday rejected French terrorist Salah Abdeslam’s request not to be extradited to France, saying that his claim that it would be a breach of his human rights was not “sufficiently substantiated.” Abdeslam, 33, was transferred to Belgium […]
(Brussels Times) The court and the jury have started their deliberations on the sentences of the eight convicted men in the next phase of the trial for the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels. An important legal-technical question is also being discussed […]
(National-UAE) Terrorists found guilty of the Brussels attacks in which 32 people were killed expressed regret for their actions in court on Monday. The suicide attacks in the Belgian capital’s main airport and metro system on March 22, 2016, were claimed by […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam insisted on Monday that he was unfairly tried and a victim of the media during his final remarks to the court in charge of trying the men accused of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels. Abdeslam, […]
(National-UAE) A Belgian prosecutor on Tuesday asked a jury to sentence French terrorist Salah Abdeslam to life in prison for his role in ISIS-claimed suicide attacks against Brussels that killed 35 people and wounded hundreds. “After terrorising France, he decided to continue […]
(National-UAE) French terrorist Salah Abdeslam, 33, told a Belgian court on Monday that his upcoming transfer to France would violate his human rights. “My future is in Belgium. Sending me back to France is like sending me to my death,” said Abdeslam, […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks, adjourned on 25 July after the guilty verdict, resumed on Monday morning for the closing arguments. The terror attacks trial began at the Justitia in Haren last December and at the […]
(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam (33), who faces a life sentence for his part in the March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, does not want to return to France after the trial and instead wants to serve his sentence in a Belgian prison, […]
(AFP) A Brussels court on Tuesday convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 jihadist bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country’s largest-ever criminal trial. The high-profile pair — already sentenced to life in […]
(National-UAE) The lawyer of one of the 10 defendants in the trial of an ISIS-claimed double suicide bombing in Brussels in 2016 has made the case that his client is complicit in war crimes. Nicolas Cohen, representing Bilal El [Makhoukhi], argued that […]
(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 […]
(Brussels Times) The 2016 terror attacks trial was adjourned at the Brussels Assize Court after a suspect’s lawyer investigated potential issues of impartiality behind the testimony of psychiatric expert Samuel Leistedt. Nicolas Cohen, the lawyer for the terror suspect Bilal El Makhoukhi, […]
(Brussels Times) As the trial of the 2016 terror attacks in Brussels progresses, the accused have refused to offer their sincere apologies to the victims and provided little clarification when questioned by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and lawyers on Thursday afternoon. On […]
(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 […]
(AFP) Jihadists planned a follow-up attack in France during the UEFA Euro 2016 championships, months after killing 130 people in November 2015 attacks in Paris, a defendant in a Brussels trial said Thursday. But that fell apart when a member of the […]
(Brussels Times) In the trial for the March 2016 terrorist attacks, one of the suspects admitted responsibility during the interrogation on Wednesday in the Brussels Court of Assizes. The 10 defendants — one of whom is missing, and presumed dead in Syria […]
(AFP) The main suspect in the trial of nine alleged jihadists accused of taking part in the March 2016 bombings in Brussels denied on Wednesday having any knowledge of the plot. Salah Abdeslam, a 33-year-old Frenchman already jailed over his role in […]
(Brussels Times) In the trial of the March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Monday (tomorrow) will mark the opening of the final week of victim testimonies before the Brussels Court of Assizes. Monday will start with the testimony of two sisters of […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Appeal has ordered the Belgian police to stop the daily strip searches of the defendants in the trial for the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels. The daily strip searches of the defendants accompanied by […]
(Brussels Times) Victims and relatives of victims gave testimony on Wednesday at the Brussels assize court in charge of trying 10 men — one of them in absentia — for the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in the Belgian capital. Before the […]
(AFP) A teenage girl who lost both her legs in a 2016 Brussels suicide bombing, and fought back to become a Paralympian, was the first victim to testify on Monday at the trial of those accused of plotting or aiding the attacks. […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks will enter a new phase on Monday after a week-long break in hearings. During the first week back, the first hearings of background witnesses will be followed by the first testimony of victims. […]
(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 […]
(Brussels Times) The defence team of Salah Abdeslam took the floor at the Brussels Assise Court on Tuesday afternoon to question investigators and examining magistrates about their investigation into the Brussels attacks of 22 March 2016. In her first questions to the […]
(Brussels Times) Sofien Ayari has continually maintained during hearings on the March 2016 terror attacks and the shooting in the Rue du Dries in Forest that he did not feel involved in the attacks in Paris and Brussels and that “committing stuff […]
(Brussels Times) Defendant Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa gradually became interested in radicalism after converting to Islam in 2011, according to information presented by examining magistrates and investigators on Tuesday at the Brussels Assize Court, in charge of judging the attacks committed in the […]
(Brussels Times) Throughout his 15 hearings and interrogations, terror accused Osama Krayem presented himself as a convinced adherent of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group who did not, however, endorse all its actions. He maintained that he had not participated in making […]
(Brussels Times) The roles of Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa, Ibrahim Farisi and Sofien Ayari will be explained on Tuesday at the assize court charged with trying the men accused of involvement in the 22 March 2016 Brussels terror attacks. Investigators are also slowly […]
(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Assizes, which is currently presiding over the trial of suspects involved in the Brussels terror attacks at the Maelbeek metro station and Zaventem Airport, listened to the testimony of an expert who was able to trace […]
(Brussels Times) One of the accused in the trial of the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels, Salah Abdeslam, stated that he would remain in his cell until the verdict is passed following an earlier complaint in which he claimed he […]
(Brussels Times) One of the terror suspects currently standing trial for the 2016 Brussels bombings, Salah Abdeslam stated on Wednesday that he was beaten by police officers during his transfer to the courtroom. His lawyer revealed that the inside of her client’s […]
(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 […]
(National-UAE) Lawyers of victims of the 2016 Brussels bombing attack on Monday said they had been “taken hostage” by defendants’ repeated walkouts and protests against security measures since the opening of the trial this month. Lawyers of four defendants — Mohamed Abrini, […]
(Hungary Today) In 2015, Salah Abdeslam, one of the perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks and its sole survivor, brought several migrants from Hungary to Western Europe, where they were all involved in terrorist attacks. As revealed in a recent article in […]
(National-UAE) A stand-off has enveloped the long-awaited 2016 Brussels bombing trial which has faced a rocky start as the main defendants of the triple suicide attacks that killed 32 people have refused to comply with the security procedures put in place. Six […]
(National-UAE) The presiding judge of the Brussels bombing trial on Thursday intervened to call for improved relations between the parties involved after one of the defendants accused a policeman of strangling him. The incident was said to have been in retaliation for […]
(Brussels Times) The third day of the 2016 Brussels terror attack trial was marred in controversy on Wednesday as five suspects left the courtroom to protest the conditions of their transfer. The Ministry of Justice has already dismissed the plea to relax […]
(AFP) A defendant on trial over the 2016 bombings in Brussels on Monday charged in court that the suspects were being “humiliated” by draconian security measures and threatened to remain silent unless conditions improved. Ten men are on trial accused of directing […]
(AP) More than six years after the deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, the trial of 10 men accused over the suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station started in earnest under high security on Monday. Among the accused is […]
(AP) Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived — 32 other people did not. It’s […]
(AFP) Belgium launched its biggest-ever criminal trial on Wednesday, the landmark prosecution of alleged jihadists accused of directing or aiding 2016 suicide bombings in Brussels’ metro and airport that killed 32 people. The prime French suspect in the dock confirmed his identity […]
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