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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 24, 2016, people look at the inscription “Love one another” written with chalk and paper butterflies on a wall on the Place de la Bourse (Beursplein) in central Brussels, in tribute to the victims of the Brussels attacks, two days after a triple bomb attack, which responsibility was claimed by the Islamic State group, hit Brussels’ airport and the Maelbeek – Maalbeek subway station, killing 31 people and wounding 300 others. – Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, and another jihad “fighters” and suspected organisers of terror attacks that killed 32 people in Brussels on March 22, 2016, are on trial in the Brussels’ Assizes court. (Photo by PATRIK STOLLARZ / AFP)

elgium’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 alleged jihadists…



Source: Guardian Newspaper