StoryCast '21: EP 8/21 Terror in Brussels Airport
Unreliable Witness | Storycast
Sky News
4.3 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Just metres from where he was stood only moments earlier, people now lay dead.
Among those severely injured was Sebastien Bellin, a former Belgian basketball player.
Just months before, in November 2015, ISIS had attacked Paris, killing 130 people.
Because of the nature of that attack, both men now expected more bombs and further deaths.
Within an hour, another bomb was detonated on the Metro in central Brussels.
Amidst the confusion, Alex Rossi began to document, live on Sky News, the terrifying unfolding situation inside the airport. What he had no understanding of at that time was the devastation inside the departure lounge, where Sebastien Bellin lay stricken.
Revisiting their respective experiences in depth this podcast is a graphic account of the attack on Brussels - which claimed 32 lives - from the perspective of both men.
CREDITS
Terror in Brussels Airport was recorded by Tom Gillespie.
Production, writing and sound design by Rob Mulhern
Special thanks to our contributors, Sebastien Bellin and Alex Rossi
Archive, Simon Windsor
TV treatment, Gemma Watson
TV output editor, Emily Deeker
Digital, Tom Gillespie
Head of Radio, Sky News, Dave Terris
Design and graphics, Brian Gillingham
Social media, Chris Scott
Press and Marketing, Alexandra Horton
Email: storycast@sky.uk
For more on this story log on to www.skynews/storycast21
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| 0:22.9 | Adelphi Theatre. Book your tickets yesterday. I'm Jane Secker, and you're listening to |
| 0:34.6 | episode 8 of Storycast 21. |
| 0:38.5 | In 2016, ISIS bombers targeted the Belgian capital Brussels, killing 32 civilians and injuring |
| 0:46.6 | more than 300 people. The podcast you're about to hear is a graphic eyewitness account of the attack |
| 0:53.1 | as it unfolded. This is terror in |
| 0:56.6 | Brussels airport. |
| 1:01.3 | My name is Alex Rossi. My job title is National Correspondent for Sky News. I was at Brussels Airport on the 22nd of March 2016. |
| 1:15.7 | I was flying to Tel Aviv back to my base in Jerusalem in Israel. |
| 1:22.1 | It is just over four days since a wave of coordinated bombings and shootings left. |
| 1:27.2 | I was in Brussels to cover the arrest of Salah Abdul-Salem. |
| 1:32.3 | He was one of the people wanted in connection with the Paris attacks, |
| 1:37.3 | which had happened five months earlier. |
| 1:39.3 | After raids across France and into Belgium, now a massive... |
| 1:43.3 | Salah Abdu-Slam was born in Belgium. He came from the Molenbeak area in Brussels. |
| 1:50.0 | Now that's where the ISIS cell, who carried out the Paris attacks. That's where they came from. |
| 1:56.0 | They had thought he was in Syria, but intelligence has led police to... |
| 1:59.0 | ISIS was a terrorist organization, |
| 2:02.6 | and they had taken a huge swath of Syria, |
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