Six radical Islamic terrorists responsible for the deaths of 32 people in the Belgian capital of Brussels seven years ago have finally been found guilty, with Salah Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, Oussama Atar, Osama Krayem, Ali El Haddad Asufi, and Bilal El Makhoukhi convicted of terrorist murders at the Brussels Airport and the Maelbeek metro station.
Two others, identified as a Rwandan and a Tunisian, beat their murder charges but were still convicted of taking part in terrorist activities, while brothers Smail and Ibrahim Farisi were acquitted on all counts.
In addition to the 32 people killed directly by the bombings, the courts ruled that the Islamic State operatives were responsible for the deaths of three other people, including a cancer patient who had to halt his treatment due to injuries sustained in the attack, one survivor who later died by suicide due to post-traumatic stress, and one who was euthanized by the state for similar reasons.
Not all of the terrorists are in custody, actually with Oussama Atar being tried in absentia. He is believed to have possibly been killed in Syria. Like Abdeslam, Attar is also connected to the radical Islamic terrorist attacks in France in 2015, which saw 137 people murdered in a concert gun massacre, a series of bombings, and several random spray shootings of cafés and restaurants across the city.
