Brissels: Following the nation's largest criminal trial ever, a Brussels court on Tuesday found Salah Abdeslam, a French citizen, and Mohamed Abrini, a Belgian-Moroccan, guilty of the 2016 terrorist bombings in the Belgian capital that left 32 people dead.

Six people accused of "murder linked to terrorism" over Belgium's largest peacetime attack were found guilty, including the high-profile pair who had already been given a life sentence by France for a 2015 massacre in Paris.

The Daesh organisation claimed responsibility for the suicide attacks on March 22, 2016, at Brussels' main airport and on the public transport system. Numerous victims, loved ones, and rescuers are still traumatised seven years after hundreds of passengers and transport employees were maimed.

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Those found guilty of the murder will serve a life sentence in Belgium. Following the end of the summer break in September, sentencing is anticipated.

The sole survivor of the 2015 Paris attack, which claimed 130 lives, was 33-year-old Abdeslam. The court was informed by the prosecution that they thought the Belgian cell was also responsible for the attack in the French capital on November 13, 2015.

After taking part in the Paris attacks, Abdeslam fled to Brussels and spent four months hiding out in an apartment that was also occupied by members of the local cell.
A few days prior to the Brussels attacks, he was taken into custody.

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Osama Atar, the accused mastermind who is thought to have died in a Syrian airstrike, was found guilty of planning the attacks in his absence.
Two additional defendants, Herve Bayingana Muhirwa of Rwanda and Sofien Ayari of Tunisia, were found guilty of belonging to a terrorist organisation despite being cleared of the charge of murder.

Smail and Ibrahim Farisi, brothers, were cleared of all charges. At the repurposed former NATO military alliance headquarters, where the trial, which began at the end of last year, was held, strict security was in place.

During the months-long hearings, dozens of injured survivors and grieving family members testified, often with tears in their eyes.
Two men detonated themselves at Brussels-Zaventem International Airport on March 22, 2016, and a third man detonated himself in a metro car close to the European Union's headquarters an hour later.

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The bombings were a part of a string of attacks in Europe that the Daesh organisation claimed responsibility for and occurred close to NATO and EU headquarters.
The court officially increased the number of victims from 32 to 35 on Tuesday after discovering a connection between the initial trauma and the subsequent deaths of three more people.

One of them was a 23-year-old woman who was at the airport and made the decision to end her life through euthanasia because of the mental pain she was experiencing.