After the selection of the jury among 600 citizens, the hearing gets to the heart of the matter on Monday.
Correspondent in Brussels
«The trial is historic because the facts that will be mentioned are part of the history of Belgium. In that sense, it is historic, as the post-war trials were. The facts are what they are.” It is in these terms that Maître Michel Bouchat, one of Salah Abdeslam’s lawyers, commented on Saturday in the daily The evening the new judicial page of the Brussels attacks, which opens this Monday on the Justitia site, a place under high surveillance specially fitted out for the trial in the former Brussels premises of NATO.
After the selection of the members of the jury on Wednesday – 12 effective jurors and 24 substitutes among the 600 citizens summoned – the lawyers and the civil parties will get to the heart of the matter with the start of the hearing on the merits. The coming week will be devoted to reading the indictment of some 500 pages. On March 22, 2016, two jihadists blew themselves up in the departures hall of the airport…
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