Sven Mary, the Belgian lawyer representing Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, attends the last day of trial of the prime suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks at the courthouse in Brussels on April 23, 2018. AFP / POOL / Stéphanie LECOCQ
Brussels: A Belgian court on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Paris attacks, to 20 years in prison for terrorism-related attempted murder over a shootout with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016.
The court passed the same sentence on Abdeslam's accomplice co-defendant Sofiane Ayari, saying there was no doubt about their involvement in extremism. Four police officers were wounded in the gun battle during a raid on a flat in the Forest area of Brussels on March 15, 2016.
