A Brussels court on Tuesday convicted French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini for 2016 jihadist bombings in the Belgian capital that killed 32 people, after the country's largest-ever criminal trial.
The high-profile pair -- already sentenced to life in jail by France for a 2015 massacre in Paris -- were among six accused found guilty of"murder linked to terrorism" over the biggest peacetime attack in Belgium.
The murder convictions leave those found guilty facing a life sentence in Belgium. Sentencing is expected after the summer recess ends in September. He testified that he decided at the last-minute not to blow himself up at the airport -- as did another defendant, Osama Krayem, a Swede of Syrian descent.
Two other defendants -- Tunisian Sofien Ayari and Rwandan Herve Bayingana Muhirwa -- were acquitted of murder but found guilty of participating in a terrorist group.A lawyer for Abrini said the verdict marked an"important moment" after years of legal proceedings and that attention would now focus on the sentencing.
Pierre Bastin, the father of one of those killed at the metro blast, said he hoped the trial would"help to turn the page".
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