A court in Brussels has found six men guilty of terrorist murder, seven years after bomb attacks that killed 32 people at the city’s airport and a metro station in March 2016
After a lengthy trial and 19 days of jury deliberations, the court in Brussels announced their verdicts.
Some of those on trial had already been convicted of taking part in the Paris terror attacks months earlier.
Salah Abdeslam was arrested a few days before the Brussels blasts.
He was found guilty in France last year of bombings and gun attacks in Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people. The Belgian trial, which began last December, has now convicted him of murder and attempted murder in Brussels as well.
Another of those now found guilty of both blasts, Mohamed Abrini, was identified on CCTV fleeing Zaventem airport when his explosives failed to detonate.
He became known as “the man in the hat” and was among a number of suspects arrested in Brussels in the weeks after the attack.
The Brussels attacks happened within an hour of each other on March 22, 2016.
Two bombs exploded shortly before 08:00 at opposite ends of the departure hall at Zaventem airport, killing 16 people.
An hour later, another explosion occurred on a train at the Maelbeek metro station in the European quarter of Brussels, close to the EU institutions. 16 other people died in that bombing, hundreds more were injured.
