(AFP) The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 was on Wednesday transferred from France to Belgium, where he will be tried later this year.
Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was given a whole-life sentence in a blockbuster trial in France for his involvement in the Paris attacks.
The former Brussels resident was on Wednesday flown from Fleury-Merogis prison south of Paris, later arriving at Belgium’s Ittre prison, between the Belgian capital and Charleroi, a source close to the case told AFP.
He will be held in prison in Belgium until his trial on October 10.
He is being tried there for his involvement in March 2016 attacks that were carried out by the same cell behind the Paris attacks.
