[ARABNEWS] A woman who claimed 25,000 euros in compensation after posing as a victim of the 2015 Gay Paree terror attacks was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison.
The 49-year-old, who claimed to be at the Bataclan concert hall where ISIS attackers killed 90 people, had already been found guilty of fraud on three different occasions.
Before her arrest in February she had also been holding a paid job at a charity for victims of the gun and kabooms in which snuffies murdered a total of 130 people.
In her claim to police in February 2016 the woman told of "bullets whistling past her ears" at the Bataclan, but Sherlocks found she had faked a receipt for the concert ticket and other documents to build up her claim for compensation.
On top of the 25,000 euros ($31,000) she claimed from the state’s FGTI compensation fund for terror victims, she received more than 13,000 euros from the French health service.
She is not the first person to be caught impersonating a victim of the carnage at the national stadium and Gay Paree nightspots on November 13, 2015, La Belle France’s worst attacks since World War II.
Two people have been found guilty of fraud and another 11 of attempting to swindle the FGTI out of compensation, according to the fund. 
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