(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 […]
(Brussels Times) The trial of ten of the alleged perpetrators of the 22 March 2016 Brussels terror attacks — in which 32 civilians were killed and more than 300 injured — is set to begin this Monday. Here is an overview of […]
(AFP) Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life. Now, six and a half years later, Brussels will host its biggest ever criminal trial. Jury selection begins on Wednesday ahead of hearings into the charges against the nine […]
(Brussels Times) Belgian lawyers Michel Bouchat and Delphine Paci will defend Salah Abdeslam at the trial of the Brussels attacks. Olivia Ronen, the French lawyer who represented Salah Abdeslam at the trial in Paris last year in the case of the 13 […]
(Connexion) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is among those to have paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks of November 13, seven years after 130 died and 350 were injured. A minute of silence was observed today, November 13, 2022, […]
(Brussels Times) French terrorist Salah Abdeslam — who is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2015 Paris terror attacks — has married a woman he has never met, French media has reported. According to RTL France, Abdeslam, 33, […]
(Courthouse News) Europe’s top rights court heard arguments on Tuesday over whether a 13-month house arrest order imposed on a French man for alleged extremist views violated his human rights. Lawyers for David Pagerie argued before the European Court of Human Rights […]
(AFP) The trial for the 2016 Brussels attacks will resume on November 30, a Belgian court said on Friday, after being delayed to replace controversial glass boxes intended for the accused, including French jihadist Salah Abdeslam. Defence lawyers had argued that they […]
(Breitbart) German anti-terror police in northern Hesse have carried out a series of arrests against a gang accused of smuggling Syrians and also helping radical Islamic State terrorists enter Europe. The elite anti-terrorist unit GSG 9 executed six arrest warrants on Tuesday, […]
(Reuters) Nine men accused of participating in the 2016 Brussels bombings that killed 32 people cannot be put on trial in glass boxes their lawyers have likened to animal cages, a judge ruled on Friday. The special court for one of Belgium’s […]
(AFP) French jihadist Salah Abdeslam, already jailed for his role in the 2015 Paris attacks, refused to take the stand Monday on the first day of the trial for the 2016 suicide bombings in Brussels. He was one of the nine alleged […]
(AFP) Six years after Belgium’s deadliest peacetime attack, a Brussels court will this week host a landmark trial that survivors hope will mark a step forward in their recovery and that of their nation. The case against alleged members of an Islamic […]
(AP) It was Bastille Day on the French Riviera. A lawyer was strolling with her mother, friends and a colleague along the beachfront boulevard in Nice to celebrate France’s national day. Four young sisters from Poland had spent a day of sightseeing. […]
(AP) There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists coming from Iraq and Syria, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday. Jean-Francois Ricard said in an interview on French news broadcaster BFM TV that terrorist acts carried […]
(AFP) Belgian prosecutors said Tuesday they would not appeal the verdicts in the cases of 14 Belgium-based suspects accused of providing support for the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris. The decision confirms the judgements in the Belgian trial, running in parallel […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 was on Wednesday transferred from France to Belgium, where he will be tried later this year. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday, allowing France to close the legal chapter of its worst atrocity […]
(AFP) A Belgian court imposed a three-year suspended sentence Thursday on Abid Aberkane, convicted of assisting the sole surviving jihadist behind the November 2015 Paris attacks by housing him in Brussels. The ruling came a day after a French court sentenced Aberkane’s […]
(AP) The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris criticized her client’s murder conviction and life prison sentence without the possibility of parole, saying Thursday the verdict “raises serious questions.” Olivia Ronen did not say […]
(AP) A total of 20 men were convicted Wednesday over the 2015 Paris attacks by Islamic State extremists on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and the national stadium. Most attention has focused on the lone surviving member of the attack team, Salah […]
(AP) The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole for the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history. The special […]
(VOA) One of France’s most high-profile trials in history wraps up this week amid a sharply changing security landscape across Europe, where the war in Ukraine and far-right violence have reshaped threat perceptions once dominated by Islamist extremism. Verdicts are expected Wednesday […]
(Reuters) The trial of suspects in the attack that killed 130 people across Paris in 2015 will come to an end on Wednesday when judges hand in their verdict, in what victims said will be a relief after nearly 10 months of […]
(AFP) Five judges overseeing the trial into the November 2015 attacks on the Bataclan concert hall and other targets around Paris headed to a secret location Monday to consider their verdicts. The specially built court in central Paris held its final hearings […]
(AP) The only surviving suspected member of the Islamic State attack team that terrorized Paris in 2015 pleaded for leniency during his final appearance in court on Monday, acknowledging he had “made mistakes,” but declaring: “I’m not a murderer.” Salah Abdeslam is […]
(AFP) During the nine-month trial stemming from France’s worst ever terror attacks in November 2015, the moment hundreds of victims were hoping for came late in proceedings. “I’m going to explain myself because it’s the last time that I’ll have the opportunity […]
(Radio France) On Friday, closing statements in the Paris attacks trial came to an end with pleas from the two lawyers representing Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist group which caused the deaths of 132 people in the November 2015 […]
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam is the sole surviving member of the terrorist group that attacked venues in or near Paris on 13 November 2015. On Friday his defence team, Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, will attempt to save him from spending the […]
(Radio France) Farid Kharkhach admits providing some of the false documents used by the Paris attacks killers. That crime is punishable by 20 years in jail; the prosecution wants Kharkhach to serve six. On Thursday, before an almost empty court, his young […]
(Radio France) On Tuesday, defence council Xavier Nogueras used the language of the accused against the language of the court. It was a remarkable performance. Xavier Nogueras is the superstar of the defence benches. He is flamboyant, instantly identifiable by his prematurely […]
(Radio France) After ten days of heart-rending reminders of horror from the legal teams representing the victims, followed by last week’s demands for punishment from the prosecution, on Monday the Paris attacks trial moved into a different emotional realm with the first […]
(AFP) Prosecutors in the Paris attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in France’s worst-ever terror assault. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman, is the only surviving […]
(Radio France) The November 2015 Paris attacks trial took another crucial step towards judgement on Wednesday with the beginning of the final presentation of the case by the prosecution. On Friday, the three co-prosecutors will demand the sentences they believe each of […]
(AFP) The trial over the November 2015 attacks in Paris, France’s worst-ever terror assault, heard the beginning of closing arguments Wednesday by the three leading prosecutors in the case. For three days, the prosecutors will detail their version of the events on […]
(Radio France) Lawyers for the victims of the November 2015 terrorist attacks are continuing their concluding remarks. The Special Criminal Court is a theatre of contradiction, with the black robes offering everything from flamboyant rhetoric to dignified common sense. The 14 accused […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, the Special Criminal Court where the Paris terror trial is taking place listened to the closing arguments of lawyers representing the survivors and the families of victims, and those who chose not to join the collective presentation organised […]
(Radio France) This week, the Paris attacks trial will hear the testimonies of 70 victims and their families. If the tragic facts remain the same, the individual experiences of the night of 13 November 2015, and of life since, are unique. One […]
(AFP) Members of American band Eagles of Death Metal testified Tuesday at the trial for the November 2015 attacks on Paris which saw gunmen attack the Bataclan concert hall while the rockers were playing. Frontman Jesse Hughes and guitarist Eden Galindo arrived […]
(Radio France) The end of this extraordinary judicial process is now in sight. After eight months of evidence, explanation and questions, the court trying 14 men suspected of various levels of complicity in the November 2015 attacks will now listen to the […]
(Radio France) On Thursday, the Paris special criminal court continued the psychiatric profiling of the 14 men being tried on suspicion of various levels of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings in the French capital. The spotlight fell, once again, on […]
(Radio France) This week’s hearings at the special criminal court in Paris are devoted to the psychiatric and psychological profiles of the 14 suspects. On Wednesday, four experts presented their findings on six of the accused. No one was particularly surprised. Mediocrity […]
(Reuters) Fourteen people went on trial in Belgium on Tuesday accused of helping a jihadist group that killed 130 people in the gun and bomb attacks across Paris in 2015. The 13 men and one woman are accused of supporting the self-avowed […]
(Radio France) This week’s hearings were the last chance for the 14 men accused in connection with the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks to give their version of events. Some spoke, some chose the silence to which they are unconditionally entitled under […]
(AFP) The sole surviving member of the jihadist team that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks apologised on Friday to the victims at the end of his trial testimony. The comments marked a dramatic end to three days of testimony by […]
(AFP) Fourteen people charged as accomplices to jihadists who carried out deadly bomb and gun attacks in Paris in 2015 will go on trial in Belgium from Tuesday. Proceedings will take place under high security in NATO’s former headquarters and are expected […]
(Radio France) For the second day at the Paris attacks trial, evidence from surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam dominated proceedings. Less sure of himself on Thursday, in the face of relentless questioning, Abdeslam finally asked for forgiveness and a second chance. That provoked […]
(Radio France) Surviving Paris attacks terrorist Salah Abdeslam on Wednesday surprised the special criminal court in Paris by agreeing to answer questions about his specific mission on 13 November 2015. While zones of doubt and mystery remain, Abdeslam did provide new information […]
(AFP) The last surviving suspected assailant in the deadly 2015 Paris attacks told a court Wednesday that he changed his mind about going through with the killings at the last moment. “The objective I was given was to go to a cafe […]
(Radio France) The Paris attacks trial resumed on Tuesday with the interrogation of Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou, the two men who admit driving to Paris on the morning after the 13 November 2015 killings to bring surviving terrorist Salah Abdeslam back […]
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