Exactly 3 years ago this happened in the heaviest attacks in the history of our country

Today it is exactly three years ago that with attacks on the airport of Zaventem and in the metro station Maelbeek in Brussels, 32 people were killed. Some 340 others were injured. The offenders were returned IS fighters. The process will probably in the course of 2020 to start and it would be six months. Where it will take place, is not yet clear. This morning found both in station Maelbeek as Brussels Airport, commemorative ceremonies take place.

The attacks of march 22, 2016 in our country, came some four months after the deadly attacks in Paris - at concert hall Bataclan - and were the work of the same cell IS-terrorists. Three terrorists were that day itself, the life, and in the weeks and months afterwards were ten suspects identified and arrested, all of which have been involved in the preparation and execution of the attacks: Mohamed Abrini, Osama Krayem, Sofien Ayari, the brothers Smaïl and Ibrahim Farisi, Hervé Bayingana Muhirwa, Bilal El Makhoukhi, Ali El Haddad Asufi, Youssef El Ajmi and Brahim Tabich. The largest part of them is still in pre-trial detention.

investigations

The investigation into the attacks continue almost three years later still, but is in a final stage according to the federal public prosecutor's office. “There must be a hundred investigations be carried out, but it comes to smaller issues. To a number of doors in the research to close”, sounds. the


Once the examining magistrates are of the opinion that all of the useful investigations are done, they will the file transfer to the federal public prosecutor's office, which then eindvordering must prepare and file for the judiciary. It is the judiciary that must decide which suspects would have to stand and before which court. the


in all probability it will to a process for the assize court, unless in the meantime the procedure has to be adjusted. The federal public prosecutor's office hopes the whole procedure for the judiciary, and possibly the Chamber of Incrimination (KI), in a relatively short time to be able to go through, so the process is still in 2020 could begin. According to a first estimate would be the process at least six months. (read on below)