(Brussels Times) Salah Abdeslam (33), who faces a life sentence for his part in the March 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, does not want to return to France after the trial and instead wants to serve his sentence in a Belgian prison, announced the French-speaking court of first instance in Brussels.
Abdeslam in 2022 received a life sentence from the special assize court for his role in the 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris without the chance of ever being released, and has served most of his sentence in a French cell since his arrest on 18 March 2016.
Since July 2022, however, he has been behind bars in Belgium for the duration of the trial about the 2016 attacks in Brussels Airport and the Maelbeek metro station. At the end of July, Abdeslam was convicted by the jury as a co-perpetrator of the terrorist murders.
