(NY Times) A French-Moroccan man was convicted on Wednesday on charges of complicity in the 2016 murders of an off-duty police officer and his partner at their home near Paris, part of a wave of deadly Islamist terrorist attacks that deeply shocked France.
A criminal court in Paris found that the man, Mohamed Lamine Aberouz, 30, helped stage the attack that killed the officer, Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, 42, a police captain, and his partner, Jessica Schneider, 36, an administrative worker at a police station.
The court found him guilty of multiple charges, mainly complicity in the murders and of being part of a terrorist conspiracy, and sentenced him to life in prison, with the possibility of parole only after 22 years. Mr. Aberouz had always denied playing any role in the killings.
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