A court in Tunis Saturday sentenced to life in prison seven people among 44 defendants suspected in separated terror attacks that killed 60 people in 2015. Three people received life sentences for participating in the first attack in March 2015 at Tunis Bardo Museum. Four other suspects received the same punishment for a second attack few months later, in June at a seaside resort where 38 people, mostly British tourists, were gunned down. Seifeddine Rezgui believed trained by ISIS popped up at the seaside resort with a Kalashnikov and shot people down before being slain by police. The Saturday verdict also handed jail sentences ranging from six to 16 years to several defendants while the court acquitted 27 people.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 11, 2019 13:30 UTC