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Tangi Salaün, Clotaire Achi and Ingrid Melander

FOUND: Verdict expected on wednesday in paris islamist attacks - You Need To See This

An artist's sketch shows Salah Abdeslam (R), one of the accused, who is widely-believed to be the only surviving member of the group suspected of carrying out the attacks, and the other accused during the verdict in the trial of the Paris' November 2015 attacks at the Paris courthouse on the Ile de la Cite in Paris, France, June 29, 2022. Elisabeth de Pourquery/France Televisions via Reuters

A French court on Wednesday handed a life sentence to the lone survivor of the Islamist squad that killed 130 people in a night of carnage across Paris, bringing some closure to survivors and a country whose psyche was left scarred.

Salah Abdeslam was found guilty on terrorism and murder charges, with no possibility of early release, the most severe criminal sentence possible in France and one handed out only four times previously.

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