French court jails for life sole surviving Paris 2015 attacker

A French court on Wednesday sentenced to life in prison the sole surviving member of the jihadist team who carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead.

Salah Abdeslam was sentenced to a full-life term, which offers only a small chance of parole after 30 years. Such sentences have been pronounced only four times previously since being created in 1994.

The verdict matched the prosecutors' demand for the most severe sanction allowed under French law.


A childhood friend of Abdeslam, Mohamed Abrini, who was accused of providing logistical support, was also sentenced by the court to a life sentence with 22 years as a minimum term.