France, Nov. 30 -- The arduous process of jury selection began todayaheadthe trial of ninealleged jihadistssuspected of involvement in the 2016 terrorist attacks in Belgium, in which 32 people died. Fiveof the accused have already been sentenced by a Paris court for their roles in the terrorist attacks in November 2015.

The court in Brussels has summoned 1,000 citizens in order to choose among them 12 main jurors with 24 understudies on standby and able to follow daily evidence hearings for months.

The trial should have begun in October, but there was controversy over the dock, in which the accused were to have been held in individual glass-walled boxes.The defendants' areas were rebuilt as a single, shared space.

Hearings are schedule...