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It’s been more than seven years since Belgium’s worst ever peacetime attack. In March of 2016 an islamic state terror cell carried out twin bombings at the Brussels airport alongside a third on the Metro. A court Tuesday convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges, including French citizen Salah Abdeslam and Belgian-Moroccan Mohamed Abrini – both already sentenced to life in jail by France for the Paris attacks in 2015. FRANCE 24’s Peter O’Brien tells us more.