[1/4] Lawyers attend the courtroom before reading the sentences in the trial of eight men found guilty of participation or complicity in the March 2016 attacks, at the Brussels-Capital Assizes Court in Justitia building in Brussels, on September 15, 2023.
On March 22 2016, 32 people were killed and 324 Acquire Licensing Rights Read moreBRUSSELS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A Belgian court on Friday sentenced eight defendants in the country's largest ever trial involving the 2016 Islamist bombings in Brussels that killed 32 people, Belga news agency said.
Among those convicted was Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the trial over the Paris attacks that killed 130 people.
The court considered that the French sentence of life in prison for his role in the 2015 Paris attack and his 20 year prison sentence over a Brussels shooting was enough and he did not receive a further sentence.
On the run after fleeing the French capital, he was seized in Brussels four days before the Belgian attacks.
Persons:
Salah Abdeslam, Marine Strauss, Dominique Vidalon
Organizations:
Belgian, Thomson
Locations:
Brussels, Justitia, BRUSSELS, Belgian