In Belgium, a gang of 14 persons have been charged with being accomplices in the 2015 Paris terror attacks.

The suspects are charged with giving lodging, money, and transportation to assailants who committed what has been labeled France’s greatest tragedy since World War II.

The majority of the accused have also been charged with “participating in terrorist group activities,” which carries a maximum sentence of five years in jail.

On Tuesday, nine of the fourteen defendants appeared in court, while three were absent. Two more are feared dead in Syria.

The trial is part of a larger inquiry in France into the November 2015 attacks that killed 130 people.

Prosecutors assert that the defendants must have been aware that the assailants they assisted were carrying out “terrorist” acts.

However, attorneys representing two of the accused assert that they have “no terrorist profile” and “no connection to extreme Islam.”

One of the defendants is charged with concealing Salah Abdeslam in his mother’s Molenbeek house in March 2016, only days before he was captured.

Abedslam, who is considered to be the last surviving member of the terrorist cell responsible for the 2015 assaults, is now on trial in Paris.

Another guy on trial in Belgium is accused of lending his apartment to one of the terrorists who detonated a device during the 2016 Brussels terror attacks. A separate trial is scheduled to commence later this year for the bombs, which killed 32 people.

Meanwhile, the Belgian trial of alleged Paris attacks collaborators is scheduled to conclude on 20 May.