Brussels Airlines Chairman of the board of directors Viscount Etienne Davignon talks to the press after an Extraordinary Works Council of Brussels Airlines, on February 5, 2018 in Diegem, Machelen. SN Airholding's owner Lufthansa is debating a possible integration of Brussels Airlines into their low-cost branch Eurowings. (Photo by BENOIT DOPPAGNE / BELGA / AFP) / Belgium OUT AFP - BENOIT DOPPAGNE
A Brussels court has ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba.
Belgian prosecutors have moved a step closer to putting a former senior official on trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, in a case that many see as a landmark moment in Europe’s reckoning with its colonial past.
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