(AFP) The Brussels appeals court on Tuesday halted the Belgian authorities from sending convict Salah Abdeslam to France to continue serving a life term for the 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the jihadist cell that killed 130 in the French capital, was in July found guilty over a subsequent 2016 attack in Brussels.
After the trial in Belgium ended in September, he was due to be transferred back to France by October 12 to face the rest of his sentence.
But the Brussels court said the transfer was “temporarily suspended” over concerns it contravened the European Convention of Human Rights.
