The special assize court of Paris pronounced, on Wednesday evening, sentences ranging from two years’ imprisonment to life against the 20 defendants for their involvement to varying degrees in the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015, which left 131 dead in the French capital and its suburbs.
Thus, Salah Abdeslam, the main defendant in the trial of the November 13 attacks and the only member of the commandos still alive, was sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment.
The five professional magistrates followed the requisitions of the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office which had demanded this sanction, which makes any possibility of release minimal.
All the defendants were found guilty of the charges with which they were charged, with the exception of Farid Kharkhach, who was suspected of having helped one of the pivots of the attacks and who was sentenced to two years in prison.
Mohamed Abrini, the “second survivor of the convoy of death” who had given up on the evening of November 13 and returned to Belgium, was sentenced to life imprisonment with 22 years of security.
Life had been requested against ten defendants including Salah Abdeslam, and six others who were absent from the trial because they were presumed dead or imprisoned abroad.
The Clain brothers received an irreducible life sentence, while Ahmed Dahmani, currently imprisoned in Turkey, was sentenced in his absence to thirty years’ imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.
Mohammed Amri sentenced to 8 years in prison, with a two-thirds security sentence, Muhammad Usman to 18 years in prison, with a security sentence, Yassine Atar to 8 years in prison, with a two-thirds security period, Ali El Haddad Asufi to 10 years in prison, with two-thirds security, and Osama Krayem and Sofien Ayari to 30 years in prison.
Three defendants appeared free in this case Abdellah Chouaa who was sentenced to 4 years in prison, 3 of which were suspended; Ali Oulkadi who was sentenced to 5 years in prison, 3 of which were suspended, and Hamza Attou to 4 years in prison, 2 of which were suspended.
A series of simultaneous attacks were perpetrated in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015, in which 131 people lost their lives and 350 were injured. These attacks, the deadliest ever committed in France, were claimed by the terrorist group known as Islamic State.
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