Mohamed Abrini, one of the nine defendants in the Brussels attacks that killed 32 people in March 2016, including 16 at Zaventem airport, tells his version of the events.
Brussels lawyer Delphine Paci will take over the defense of Moroccan Salah Abdeslam , one of the alleged perpetrators of the Brussels attacks, at the trial that will open in October.
Sentenced to life imprisonment in France for his role in the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris, Salah Abdeslam has been transferred from France and incarcerated in the Ittre prison in Belgium, and will have to be tried for his involvement in the Brussels attacks.
Prosecuted by the Brussels correctional court for having housed Abdelhamid Abaaoud after the Paris attacks, the federal prosecutor requested, on Monday morning, a sentence of 3 years in prison against Abdoullah Courkzine.
The so-called "Paris bis" trial, the Belgian part of the investigation into the November 13 attacks, opened on Tuesday, April 19 before the Brussels Criminal Court. The Moroccan Mohamed Rabhioui, one of the twelve defendants suspected of having participated, directly or indirectly, in the attacks by providing assistance to the perpetrators or their main accomplices, contests, at the stand, on Friday the charges against him.
Following repeated attacks on vital and civilian facilities in Saudi Arabia , King Mohammed VI sent a message of solidarity and support to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud.
A Belgian-Moroccan appeared free before the special assize court in Paris as part of the trial of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks at the Stade de France, the terraces and the Bataclan, which left 130 dead and hundreds injured. He rejected the charges against him.
Six years after the attacks that took place in Zaventem and Maelbeek, the victims including Moroccans have received around 58.8 million euros, according to the latest figures published on Tuesday by Assuralia.
The two individuals arrested on January 26, 2022 in Benguérir and in the douar Sidi Kerroum under the rural commune of Oulad Hassoun El Hamri, in the Rehamna region, and who were preparing attacks, are affiliated with the terrorist organization Daesh. This is what the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) reveals.
Defendants in the trial of the Paris attacks, including Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini, will soon be transferred from France to Belgium. The Belgian trial will begin next October.
After four months of back and forth between Brussels and Paris, Stanislas Eskenazi, the lawyer of the Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini accused of having participated in the preparations for the November 13 attacks in Paris, expresses his feelings.
The Belgian justice system has decided to open an investigation, after the attack against a Belgian national in Agadir on January 15. The suspect has already been arrested.