10 go on trial over 2016 Brussels suicide attacks

Lawyers speak with defendants through the glass of a specially designed box at the start of the trial of 10 people over terror attacks in Brussels in March 2016 (Olivier Matthys/AP)

More than six years after the deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, the trial of 10 men accused over the suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station began in earnest under high security on Monday.

Among the accused is Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor among the Islamic State extremists who in 2015 struck the Bataclan theatre in Paris, city cafes and France’s national stadium.