(AFP) A Belgian court imposed a three-year suspended sentence Thursday on Abid Aberkane, convicted of assisting the sole surviving jihadist behind the November 2015 Paris attacks by housing him in Brussels.
The ruling came a day after a French court sentenced Aberkane’s guest Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, to life imprisonment for his role in the deaths of 130 people in the Paris attacks.
Abdeslam was the only surviving member of the jihadist cell that attacked the French national sports stadium, bars and the Bataclan concert hall in an assault immediately claimed from Syria by the IS group.
He fled to Brussels after the Paris attacks and 14 Belgian-based suspects have been accused of providing support for the cell, including by housing him during his time on the run before his arrest.
