Brussels attacks: Trial begins over 2016 attacks that killed 32

Headlines 09:00 05 Dec, 2022
Brussels attacks: Trial begins over 2016 attacks that killed 32

"Loubna was an angel, she was beautiful, she was always smiling, she was an extraordinary mother and wife," says Mohamed, Qazet.az reports.

Thirty-four-year-old teacher Loubna Lafquiri was murdered on the Brussels metro on the morning of 22 March 2016.

In all, 32 people were killed by three suicide bombers in the attacks at Maelbeek station and Zaventem airport. 

Ten men are now going on trial in the Belgian capital. Six of them have already been found guilty of involvement in the terror attacks in Paris in November 2015, which killed 130 people.

Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the French trial who was detained four days before the Brussels attacks, is also among the defendants, along with others whom prosecutors claim hosted or helped certain attackers. 

One of the 10, who is presumed killed in Syria, will be tried in absentia.