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Legal
Prosecutors request life sentence for main Paris attack suspect
(AFP) Prosecutors in the Paris attacks trial on Friday demanded a life sentence without parole for the main suspect in the November 2015 jihadist strike that killed 130 in France’s worst-ever terror assault. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman, is the only surviving […]
Law Enforcement
Man arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism
(BBC) A 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism. Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command detained him in Wales and then transferred him to London. His arrest relates to suspected terrorist financing and money laundering believed to be […]
Books
The challenges of French jihadism are ‘ahead of us, not behind,’ says French author
(Radio France) Since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq in October 2019, the threat of mass terror attacks has waned. But a new book shows home-grown French jihadists still pose a threat as they seek to reconfigure themselves […]