Terms ranged up to life in prison and included high-profile culprits Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Abrini
Hundreds of travellers and transport staff were injured and, seven years on, many victims, relatives and rescuers remain traumatised by the biggest peacetime attack in Belgium.
Dozens of wounded survivors and bereaved relatives gave emotional evidence during the months of hearings. The trial,, was held under tight security at the converted former headquarters of the Nato military alliance. He was arrested several days before the Brussels bombings took place, but the jury decided he was one of the co-conspirators of the attack. A Belgian court turned down a request from the convict to stay in the country to carry out his sentence and he should eventually return to France to serve it.
Krayem was handed a life sentence, along with Bilal El Makhoukhi and Oussama Atar. Atar, a senior commander in the Islamic State group who headed the jihadist cell, was tried in absentia because he is presumed to have died in Syria in 2017.
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