A Belgian court on Monday found Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, guilty of terrorism-related attempted murder over a shootout with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016, and sentenced him to 20 years in jail. Four police officers were wounded in the gun battle after police acting on a tip-off over the Paris attacks raided a flat in the Forest area of Brussels on March 15, 2016. – ‘Trust in Allah’ –Abdeslam has spent most of the last two years in jail in France. On the first day of the trial, Abdeslam proclaimed that he would only put his “trust in Allah” and accused the court of being biased against Muslims. An organisation representing victims of the Brussels attacks and their families has asked for symbolic damages of one euro from the trial.

Source: Egypt Independent April 23, 2018 08:48 UTC