(AFP) A Frenchman who received compensation over a 1995 terror attack in Paris has been sent to jail after pretending he was at the scene of the November 2015 assault on the city by Islamic State gunmen.
Serge Dieujuste, 44, attempted to claim compensation from a state fund for victims of the attacks on bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall, which left 130 people dead.
Investigators found that he was watching football at home instead of being in a Cambodian restaurant where three diners lost their lives, as he had claimed.
Dieujuste sought to justify his fake claim by saying the trauma he suffered during the 1995 bombing of a Paris metro station had not been fully recognised by the state and that he had not received sufficient counselling.
