Posted on 04/23/2018 9:59:02 AM PDT by Signalman
A Belgian court on Monday sentenced the sole surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, to 20 years in prison on terror charges over a bloody gun battle with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016.
Abdeslam's co-defendant Sofiane Ayari received the same sentence after the pair were convicted of terrorism-related attempted murder over the shootout in which four police officers were wounded.
Judges at the court in Brussels said that "there can be no doubt about their commitment to radicalism" as they handed down the maximum jail term demanded by Belgian prosecutors at the trial in February.
Neither Abdeslam, 28, a Belgian-born French national, nor Ayari, a 24-year-old Tunisian citizen, was in court to hear the verdict.
Abdeslam is being held in jail in France pending a separate trial over the November 2015 Paris attacks, claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, in which 130 people died.
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Only 20 yrs?? Every POS jihadist should be executed!
At least this POS should get additional yrs sentenced in France, but why does any civilized society play around with these beasts?
I agree. Surprised it’s not life. It should be.
I’d have my doubts that he survives the 20 years in prison. He’ll be the number one target of some folks.
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