Belgium Sentences Paris Attacks Suspect to 20 years

The only surviving suspect of 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, was sentenced to 20 years in jail Monday in Brussels for a separate shootout with Belgian police.  Salah Abdeslam and co-defendant Sofien Ayari were not present when a Brussels judge read out their verdict: 20 years each for terrorism and attempted murder.   The sentences relate to a March 2016 shootout with police, who raided a house where Abdeslam had been hiding, following the Paris attacks the previous...

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