The trial on the planned attack on Kurdish politicians Remzi Kartal and Zübeyir Aydar is delayed. According to lawyer Jan Fermon, the defendants' lawyers asked for an extension of time at the start of the trial in order to prepare the defense. The trial is now scheduled to resume on March 11, 2022.

Actually, the competent court in Brussels was supposed to decide on the filing of charges for the prevented June 2017 attack as early as April 27. However, the decision has been postponed. According to sources close to the investigation, the Belgian prosecutor's office initially did not consider it necessary to open the case and "in a strange way" suggested dropping the proceedings. "The authority even now takes the position that there is no concrete evidence against the defendants. We vehemently disagree with that," Fermon told ANF after the hearing. "The court also takes a different view."

It is true that it is difficult to reach a result in politically explosive trials such as these, Fermon said. As an example, the lawyer cited the trial in France of the murders of Kurdish revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on January 9, 2013. They said the judiciary has been very restrained in the case so far. "We hope that we will not encounter a similar attitude in Belgium," Fermon said.

According to sources close to the investigation, the assassination squad's links to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's palace in Ankara appear in the indictment. Also included in the indictment are references to the defendants' connections to Erdogan's chief adviser Seyit Sertçelik, the founder of the mercenary group SADAT, Adnan Tanrıverdi, and the former Turkish ambassador to Paris, Ismail Hakkı Musa.