A Belgian court declared, on Tuesday, six men guilty of murder, and two others guilty of terror charges–including Moroccan nationals Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini–during the country’s largest-ever trial concerning the 2016 terrorist bombings in Brussels, which killed 32 people, said Reuters.
Separate penalty hearings will be scheduled in September.
Six of the ten people charged were found guilty of murder and attempted murder in a terrorist context for their roles on March 22, 2016, twin explosions at Brussels airport, with a third device detonating on the city’s metro.
They and two others were also found guilty as verified members of a terrorist organization. Two men were exonerated.
Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, is on trial. He was apprehended in Brussels four days before the Belgian bombings after leaving the French capital.
His attorney, Michel Bouchat, said that the court decision is unfair and that they will appeal to the Supreme Court.
Mohamed Abrini travelled to Brussels Airport with two suicide bombers but left without detonating his explosive luggage.
As for Ibrahim Farisi, his lawyer Xavier Carrette says that he was wrongly convicted.