Dressed in a smart suit, but with soot covering his lower face, a man in his mid-30s walked out of the Saint-Jean Clinic in Brussels.
It was early Tuesday on 22 March 2016 and a jihadist had that same morning detonated a bomb at the Maalbeek metro station in the EU capital.
Visibly shaken, the man briefly recounted what he had seen.
"There were so many injuries. It was horrific. I'm in shock," he told EUobserver at the time...
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