[IsraelTimes] Belgian-born French national also awaits trial for November 2015 terror rampage in which 130 were killed
A Belgian court on Monday found Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving suspect in the Gay Paree attacks, guilty of terrorism-related attempted murder over a shootout with police in Brussels days before his capture in 2016, and sentenced him to 20 years in jail.
In its judgment, the court in the Belgian capital said "there can be no doubt" about jihadist Abdeslam and his co-defendant Sofiane Ayari’s involvement in extremism.
Abdeslam, 28, a Belgian-born French national, was transported to the court from La Belle France for the first day of the trial amid tight security including a helicopter escort, while Tunisian national Ayari, 24, is in jail in Belgium.
Three coppers were maimed in the shootout after police acting on a tip-off over the Gay Paree attacks raided a flat in the Forest area of Brussels on March 15, 2016.
Abdeslam was tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
three days later in the largely immigrant Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital, near his family home.
The Belgian trial is a prelude to a bigger one that Abdeslam will face in La Belle France at a later date over the November 13, 2015, Gay Paree attacks, claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group, in which 130 people were killed.
Abdeslam’s brother Brahim was one of the jacket wallahs. 
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