Paris attacker sentenced to whole life in prison

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PARIS: The sole surviving member of an Islamic State terror cell that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 was handed a whole-life sentence by a French court on Wednesday, the toughest punishment possible. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was captured alive by police

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PARIS: The sole surviving member of an Islamic State terror cell that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 was handed a whole-life sentence by a French court on Wednesday, the toughest punishment possible.

The other 19 suspects, accused of either plotting or offering logistical support, were found guilty, with their sentences ranging from two years to life in prison. The trial has been the biggest in modern French history, the culmination of a six-year, multi-country investigation whose findings run to more than a million pages.Abdeslam had begun his appearances by defiantly declaring himself as an"Islamic State fighter", but finished apologising to victims and asking for leniency.It offers only a small chance of parole after 30 years and has been pronounced only four times since being created in 1994.

"Those who committed these heinous crimes are nothing more than lowlife terrorists and criminals," prosecutor Nicolas Le Bris said in his closing statement earlier this month.

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