BRUSSELS: Belgium marks on Sunday 10 years since the 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, a trauma that still scars the country and that authorities say sharpened focus on intelligence and counterterrorism.
The March 22 attacks claimed by the Daesh group left 32 people dead and more than 300 wounded — Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre.
Remembrance ceremonies will begin around 8:00 am (0700 GMT) at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, continuing an hour later at the Maelbeek metro station, the sites of coordinated suicide blasts that ripped through the Belgian capital.
Christelle Giovannetti, who was injured and “scarred for life” by the scenes she witnessed that morning, has attended every commemoration held since the attacks.
“It’s absolutely essential for me to be there, it’s my place,” she told AFP head of Sunday’s events.
