Six convicted of murder for 2016 Brussels bombings
Brussels, BelgiumReuters A Belgian court convicted six men of murder and two others of terrorism charges on Tuesday after the country’s largest ever trial involving the 2016 Islamist bombings in Brussels that killed 32 people. Defendants sit in a specially designed glass box in the courtroom during the start of the Brussels terrorist attack trial […]
Main suspect handed life sentence for 2015 Islamist attacks on Paris
Paris, FranceReuters A French court on Wednesday handed a life sentence to the lone survivor of the Islamist squad that killed 130 people in a night of carnage across Paris, bringing some closure to survivors and a country whose psyche was left scarred. Salah Abdeslam was found guilty on terrorism and murder charges, with no […]
Main suspect tells Paris attacks trial he’s ‘an Islamic State soldier’
Paris, FranceReuters The main suspect in a jihadist rampage that killed 130 people across Paris described himself defiantly as “an Islamic State soldier” and shouted at the top judge on Wednesday at the start of a trial into the 2015 attacks. Salah Abdeslam, 31, is believed to be the only surviving member of the group […]
Terror in France: Emotions raw before Paris trial for 2015 Islamic State carnage
LORI HINNANT and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY, of Associated Press, report…