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Belgian court sentences 8 over Brussels terror attack
A Belgian court on Friday handed out sentences ranging up to life in prison to eight men for the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, ending the country's largest-ever criminal trial.
The suicide bombings on March 22, 2016 at Brussels' main airport and on the metro system killed 32 people and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini -- already sentenced to life in jail by France for a 2015 massacre in Paris -- were the highest-profile of six culprits found guilty of murder in July.
Abrini, who was one of the designated bombers but decided not to blow himself up at the last moment, was given a 30-year jail term.
The court ruled not to give Abdeslam an additional term after he was sentenced in Belgium to 20 years in 2018 over a shootout.
The bombings -- near the headquarters of both NATO and the EU -- were part of a wave of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Europe.
Hundreds of travellers and transport staff were maimed and, seven years on many victims, relatives and rescuers remain traumatised by the biggest peacetime attack in Belgium.
Authorities later raised the official death toll from the attacks to 35, after finding a link between the trauma suffered and the later deaths of three more people.
Dozens of wounded survivors and bereaved relatives gave emotional testimony during the months of hearings.
- Tight security -
The trial, which started at the end of last year, was held under tight security at the converted former headquarters of the NATO military alliance.
Abdeslam, who turned 34 on Friday, was the sole surviving perpetrator of the 2015 Paris attack that killed 130 people.
He had fled to Brussels after taking part in the Paris attacks and holed up for four months in an apartment hosting members of the local cell.
He was arrested several days before the Brussels bombings took place, but the jury decided he was one of the co-authors of the attack.
A Belgian court turned down a request from the convict to stay in the country to carry out his sentence and he should eventually return to France to serve it.
Abrini was found guilty of being in one of the teams of suicide bombers who targeted Brussels' airport and a metro station.
He testified that he had decided at the last minute not to detonate his explosive at the airport -- as did another defendant, Osama Krayem, a Swede of Syrian descent.
Krayem was handed a life sentence, along with Bilal El Makhoukhi and Oussama Atar.
Atar, a senior commander in the Islamic State group who headed the jihadist cell, was tried in absentia because he is presumed to have died in Syria in 2017.
Herve Bayingana Muhirwa, found guilty of "participating in the activities of a terrorist group", was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Tunisian Sofien Ayari, also convicted on that lesser charge, was like Abdeslam not handed additional jail time as the court said sentences in previous cases were sufficient.
The court ruled not to strip any of the convicts of their Belgian nationalities.
C.Garcia--AMWN