Belgian court tasked with trying eight people responsible for the incident Attacks in Brussels on 22 March 2016Causative 35 deaths and hundreds of injuriesdictated this friday Three of them were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the other three were sentenced to 30 to 10 years in prison.However He did not condemn the remaining two guessing that already accumulated sentences In previous attempts these were “sufficient.”
The latter was the case. Salah Abdeslamalso participating in the event Paris attacks in 2015And Sophie Setting.
The first accumulates a sentence of life imprisonment and 20 years imprisonment imposed by the French justice system for a shooting in Belgiumduring the second adds a prison sentence of 30 years in France and 20 years in Belgium for the same shot.
The court sentenced the person considered to be the instigator of the Brussels attacks to life imprisonment, the heaviest penalty.Osama Atar, who was tried in absentia and thought to have died in Syria; for Bilal El Makhoukhi and Osama Krayemduring He sentenced Mohamed Abrini to thirty years’ imprisonment, Ali El Haddad Asufi to 20 years’ imprisonment, and Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa to 10 years’ imprisonment.He has already spent seven of these in preventive detention.
The convicts were given the right to speak at the last hearing on the 11th. Some expressed sympathy for the victims.
Salah Abdeslam reiterated that he had no prior knowledge Mohamed Abrini asked for forgiveness for the attacks that took place on March 22, 2016.
on your behalf Bilal El Makhoukhi admitted responsibility and former employee of Brussels airport Ali El Haddad Asufi cried during the hearing He emphasized that he was not a terrorist or a murderer.
Bilal Al Makhoukhi also regretted the damage caused and said the sentence would never equal the punishment meted out to the victims. Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa, who was convicted only of being a member of a terrorist organization, said that he was aware of the mistakes made.
Eight people had already been sentenced by the court on July 25.but this Friday the jury of twelve members and three career judges met. determine specific penalties for each.
Six of them were convicted of terrorist murder, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization, and two were convicted of being a member of a terrorist organization.
On March 22, 2016, the first two explosions occurred at Zaventem airport near Brussels, while the third explosion occurred at Maalbeek metro station, just two hundred meters from the European Commission headquarters.