Belgium starts trial of suspected Paris attack helpers

A member of the police stands guard outside the court building on the day of the opening of the Belgian trial of alleged accomplices of the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, in Brussels, Belgium April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fourteen people went on trial in Belgium on Tuesday accused of helping a jihadist group that killed 130 people in the gun and bomb attacks across Paris in 2015.

The 13 men and one woman are accused of supporting the self-avowed Islamic State combatants before their attacks on the evening of Nov. 13, 2015, and afterwards for the one attacker who survived and returned to Brussels.