Frenchman Salah Abdeslam and nine other accused in the case of the 2016 jihadist attacks in Brussels, which left 32 dead, were sent to an assize court on Tuesday, AFP learned from a judicial source.

Frenchman Salah Abdeslam and nine other defendants in the 2016 jihadist attacks in Brussels were sent to an assize court on Tuesday, nearly five years after this double suicide attack which killed 32 people, AFP learned from a source. judicial.

The trial is not expected to take place before the second half of 2022 in Brussels.

The Belgian federal prosecutor responsible for terrorism had requested the dismissal of eight suspects (including Abdeslam) and not ten.

Three of the 13 defendants are dismissed, the same source said.