(AP) Four people will stand trial on French terrorism charges over an attempted Islamic extremist attack on a Paris-bound train that was thwarted by three young Americans.
The real-life drama inspired a Clint Eastwood movie, and after four years of investigation the case is finally going to trial.
A judicial official said Thursday that attacker Ayoub El-Khazzani and three suspected accomplices will answer to various terrorism charges in the trial, though the date has not yet been set.
Armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, pistol and box cutter, El-Khazzani, then 26, boarded an Amsterdam-Paris train carrying 500 passengers on Aug. 21, 2015, according to authorities. He opened fire and wounded two people before several passengers intervened to stop him.
