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Paris Attacks Suspect Gets 20-year Sentence in Brussels Trial

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Paris Attacks Suspect Gets 20-year Sentence in Brussels Trial
Prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks Salah Abdeslam (L) sits beside his alleged accomplice Sofiane Ayari (R) as they are surrounded by Belgian special police officers in the courtroom at the "Palais de Justice" courthouse in Brussels for the opening of his trial, on February 5, 2018. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)
Reuters
4/23/2018
Updated:
4/23/2018

A Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 ISIS 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.

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.