Two weeks in a secret location, without mobile phones and watching TV. It awaits shortly for the 12 jurors and their 16 deputies in the trial surrounding the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016.
– They will be completely isolated for around 14 days, without any contact with the outside world. The police guarantee security and ensure that no contact is possible, judge Luc Hennart tells the Belgian news site Bruzz.
The March 2016 terror attacks killed 32 people and injured hundreds when three Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station. Ten people, one of whom is in absentia, are charged with complicity in the crime. Several of them, including Swedish Osama Krayem and French Salah Abdeslam, have already been sentenced to long prison terms for their participation in the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015.
The Belgian trial was formally launched already in September last year. The verdict from the jury is expected around July 21.