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PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris court sentenced two Algerians to life in prison Wednesday for a nail bomb campaign at railway stations in the French capital in 1995. The court found Smain Ali Belkacem and Boualem Bensaid, both 34 and serving jail terms on terror-related charges, guilty of two separate attacks using home-made bombs to target civilians at Paris train stations, injuring about 44 people. The seven judges acquitted Bensaid of directly causing the bloodiest attack of France's worst post-war bomb campaign -- a blast at Saint Michel metro station in the heart of Paris in July 1995, which killed...

Two Algerian men accused of taking part in a bombing campaign on the Paris public transport system in 1995 have gone on trial. Boualem Bensaid and Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, both aged 34, are being tried before a special court in Paris which deals with terrorism trials. The bombing wave killed eight people and injured around 200 others. The worst attack happened on 25 July at the Saint-Michel suburban railway (RER) station - when all of the eight fatalities occurred, and 150 were injured. Explosives and nails had been packed into a gas bottle, and the explosion caused horrific injuries....