Director of the French Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office, Jean-Francois Ricard, said Thursday that the sentence against Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the 2015 terrorist attacks who was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, as a “fair sentence.”
Abdeslam was convicted, last night as the only surviving member of the group that killed 130 people in Paris on November 13, 2015.
The punishment is the strictest in France, which abolished the death penalty in 1981.
Abdesalam, 32, said during the trial that he was not a murderer because he did not kill anyone in the attacks, and claimed that he had stopped deactivating his explosive belt in a bar.
“The punishment is just and not harsh,” Ricard said in an interview with public broadcaster France Info.
He considered that jihadism “remains the number one terrorist threat, as the jihadists have not been completely defeated.”
The Paris Criminal Court also sentenced the second suspect in the attacks, Mohamed Abrini, to life imprisonment with a minimum sentence of 22 years in prison.
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