[IsraelTimes] 14 accused are suspected of transporting, housing or financially helping some of the perpetrators in the Islamic State..formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
killing spree that claimed 130 lives
Belgium on Tuesday opened the trial of 14 people alleged to have assisted jihadists who carried out deadly bomb and gun attacks in Gay Paree in 2015.
Proceedings began under high security in NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
’s former headquarters and are expected to last until May 20, with a verdict likely to take several more weeks.
The hearings were happening in parallel with a trial in Gay Paree of 20 suspects charged in La Belle France in connection with the same killing spree. That trial opened in September and is expected to run until the end of June.
The November 2015 Gay Paree attacks saw 130 people killed, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility.
Assailants set off suicide belts outside the Stade de La Belle France stadium, as a group of button men in a car cut down people outside restaurants and bars. Three jihadists then killed 90 people attending a performance at Gay Paree’ popular Bataclan music venue.
Part of the attack was planned in Belgium, according to prosecutors.
The 14 accused in the Belgian trial — 13 men and one woman — are suspected of transporting, housing or financially helping some of the perpetrators of the Gay Paree attacks.
Charges include driving an alleged attacker to the airport for a trip to Syria.
Two of the suspects, both Belgians, are being tried in absentia. They are believed to have died in Syria.
Some of the suspects are close to Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old French national who is the only surviving suspected assailant after failing to set off his bomb belt. Abdeslam is on trial in Gay Paree.
Prosecutors allege they had knowledge of the jihadist group’s intentions, and those that helped Abdeslam — who was living in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek — in the four months following the attacks that he was a runaway.