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Belgium sentences Paris attacks suspect to 20 years in jail

| Updated: April 24, 2018 12:51:29


People pay tribute to the victims of Paris attacks at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, November 27, 2015. Reuters. People pay tribute to the victims of Paris attacks at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, November 27, 2015. Reuters.

A Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016.

Abdeslam’s co-defendant Sofien Ayari also received a 20-year term for attempted terrorist murder, says a Reuters report.

While his lawyer argued Abdeslam, 28, should be acquitted because of a procedural error, prosecutors had charged him with attempted murder over the Brussels shootout in March 2016, days before his arrest, and called for a jail term of 20 years.

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