Arrivals before French court convicts 19 over Paris attacks

Описание: (29 Jun 2022)
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Paris - 29 June 2022
1. Various exteriors of court ahead of trial verdicts, security
2. Various of corridor outside courtroom, security, visitors arriving for verdicts
STORYLINE:
The only surviving attacker from the 2015 terrorist massacre at the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
That is the most severe sentence possible in France, and very rare.
Salah Abdeslam was the chief suspect in an exceptional trial over the 2015 attacks, which killed 130 people and were claimed by the Islamic State group.
The judge in a special terrorism court Wednesday found him guilty of murder and attempted murder in relation to a terrorist enterprise.
The court found that his explosives vest malfunctioned, dismissing his argument that he ditched the vest because he decided not to follow through with his attack.
A special French court on Wednesday found 20 men guilty of involvement in the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France’s national stadium in 2015 that killed 130 people in the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.
Presiding judge Jean-Louis Peries read the verdicts in a courthouse surrounded by unprecedented security, wrapping up a nine-month trial.
Of the defendants besides Abdeslam, 18 were handed various terrorism-related convictions, and one was convicted on a lesser fraud charge.
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