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Reuters
Reuters
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By Philip Blenkinsop

Brussels attacks trial starts with debate over 'caged' accused

Sebastien Courtoy, lawyer of Smail Farisi speaks to members of the media as he arrives in the courtroom at the start of a preliminary hearing ahead of the trial of 10 people for the attacks at a Brussels metro station and the city's airport in March 2016, which killed 32 people and left 340 others injured, in Brussels, Belgium September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

The trial of 10 men accused of participating in the 2016 Brussels bombings that killed 32 people began on Monday with defence lawyers arguing that their clients should not be put in glass boxes like animals in a zoo.

Monday's launch, in the former headquarters of NATO in a Brussels suburb, focused on procedural matters. The trial proper into the Islamist bombings at Brussels airport and on the city's metro in March 2016, with the indictments and testimony, is due to begin in October.

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