The trial of the Brussels attacks has (finally) passed into its second phase. The most moving, the most gripping but also the most human: the victims speak out. At least those who are “lucky” to survive the bloody and indiscriminate Islamist attacks on the Maelbeek metro and Zaventem airport in March 2016.
Deeply touched to the depths of their flesh, these human beings, who bear the names of victims, let appear what the human soul can carry within it best. Former international basketball player Sébastien Bellin, who underwent dozens of operations after having both legs torn apart in Zaventem, moved the whole court on Thursday with a speech imbued with humanity. The one that the perpetrators of the attacks miss. He even pushed the cork so far as to forgive. Forgive the unforgivable. Forgive those who, in the name of a religion, committed these cowardly and despicable attacks. No one was expecting this gesture from the outstretched hand. ” There’s no place in me for hate and revenge “, he said among other things. Hats off because we are not convinced that we could have such positive and noble feelings after having lived through such an ordeal. This is an example. He deserved the Nobel Prize for Inner Peace .
Wouldn’t it be up to the accused in the boxes to ask for forgiveness from their victims? It grows a man…