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Belgium court finds six guilty of murder for 2016 Brussels bombings

Defendants sit in a glass box in the Palace of Justice building in Brussels during the start of the hearing to read out the verdict in the Brussels terrorist attack trial, 25 July 2023. © Olivier Matthys/Pool via Reuters

A court in Brussels has convicted six men of murder and two others on terrorism charges for the 2016 jihadist bombings in the capital that killed 35 people, concluding Belgium’s largest-ever criminal trial.

French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini, already sentenced to life in jail by France for the 2015 Paris attacks, were among six found guilty of "murder linked to terrorism" on Tuesday.

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