BELGIUM-SYRIA-ATTACKS-ISLAMISTS-TRIAL

Defendant Michael Delefortrie, 25, who is suspected of being part of Sharia4Belgium, and who returned from fighting in Syria, is surrounded by press on February 11, 2015 after the verdict in the terrorism trial around Sharia4Belgium. A Belgian court sentenced the leader of an Islamist group that sent jihadist fighters to Syria to a 12-year jail term on February 11 and imprisoned several other members in one of the largest cases of its kind in Europe. Fouad Belkacem, 32, the chief of the Sharia4Belgium group, was convicted by a court in the northern port city of Antwerp of radicalising, recruiting and dispatching young men to fight holy war. Forty-six members of the group originally faced charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, but only eight were actually present during the five-month trial, with one deemed medically unfit to stand trial. AFP PHOTO / BELGA / DIRK WAEM - BELGIUM OUT - (Photo credit should read DIRK WAEM/AFP via Getty Images)
Defendant Michael Delefortrie, 25, who is suspected of being part of Sharia4Belgium, and who returned from fighting in Syria, is surrounded by press on February 11, 2015 after the verdict in the terrorism trial around Sharia4Belgium. A Belgian court sentenced the leader of an Islamist group that sent jihadist fighters to Syria to a 12-year jail term on February 11 and imprisoned several other members in one of the largest cases of its kind in Europe. Fouad Belkacem, 32, the chief of the Sharia4Belgium group, was convicted by a court in the northern port city of Antwerp of radicalising, recruiting and dispatching young men to fight holy war. Forty-six members of the group originally faced charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, but only eight were actually present during the five-month trial, with one deemed medically unfit to stand trial. AFP PHOTO / BELGA / DIRK WAEM - BELGIUM OUT - (Photo credit should read DIRK WAEM/AFP via Getty Images)
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