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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Philip Blenkinsop

Brussels bombings trial starts with mammoth jury selection

Sebastien Courtoy, lawyer of Smail Farisi, speaks to media on the first day of the trial of 10 people for the attacks at a Brussels metro station and the city's airport in March 2016 that killed 32 people and injured more than 300, in Brussels, Belgium November 30, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Around 700 Belgians arrived in court on Wednesday for a mammoth process to select a jury for the trial of 10 men accused of involvement in the 2016 bombings in Brussels that killed 32 people.

Belgium's largest ever trial began with hundreds of potential jurors filing through airport-style security checks and into eight waiting rooms with morning rush hour traffic snarled up outside by police searches of vehicles.

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