(Brussels Times) A man who helped the Thalys terrorist Ayoub El Khazzani to make contact with Islamic State in Syria in 2015 has been found guilty but allowed to go free by a court in Brussels.
Yazan K., now aged 27, was found guilty of being a member of a terrorist organisation, but the court declined to pass sentence.
K. had met El Khazzani in 2015 when both were working in a sorting centre for second-hand clothing. El Khazzani had expressed a wish to travel to Syria to fight with IS, hoping K. might be able to help.
K. later put him in touch with a cousin in Turkey, who at the time was suspected of being involved in the traffic of jihadists to Syria.
