(AFP) A Moroccan man sentenced to life in prison for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 that was foiled by passengers had his appeal rejected Thursday by a French court.
Their heroics were later immortalised in the Clint Eastwood film “The 15:17 to Paris.”
Ayoub El Khazzani, now 33, was disarmed and pinned down by passengers, who included off-duty American soldiers, on the Thalys train from Amsterdam on August 21, 2015, and convicted five years later of “attempted terrorist murders.”
The attack came as France was reeling from the jihadist murders at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in January 2015.
