2016 Brussels attack trial begins

Ten men are going on trial in Brussels for their role in the 2016 attacks in the Belgian capital.

On 22 March 2016, 32 people were killed by three suicide bombers at Maelbeek station and Zaventem airport.

Six of those on trial have already been found guilty of involvement in the November 2015 attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed.

One will be tried in absentia, presumed killed in Syria.

Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris trial, is one of the defendants. He was detained four days before the Brussels attack.

The trial will take place in a specially constructed court in the former headquarters of NATO and is expected to last six to nine months.

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