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Around five years after the attack in a Thalys high-speed train, the perpetrator Ayoub El Khazzani was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Paris court on Thursday.
The attack on the Moroccan in August 2015 failed because it was overwhelmed by passengers.
Three of El Khazzani's aides were sentenced to between seven and 27 years in prison.
Before the verdict was announced, the 31-year-old showed remorse on Thursday.
He is "deeply sorry for his act," said El Khazzani in his closing remarks in court.
The Moroccan had confessed to killing passengers in the trial.
But he said he had scruples at the last second.
He named the Islamist Abdelhamid Abaaoud of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist militia as the client, who is among other things considered to be the planner of the November 2015 attacks in Paris with 130 dead.
The prosecution assumed that a bloodbath was only prevented because Khazzani's weapons failed to trigger several times and the perpetrator, who was armed with a Kalashnikov, among other things, was overpowered by passengers.
In the attempted attack, the perpetrator injured two people with a knife and a gun.
Clint Eastwood filmed the story of the rescuers
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The attack on the train on the way from Amsterdam to Paris attracted international attention.
Three young tourists from the USA helped to overpower the attacker.
The “Thalys heroes” were later given French citizenship as a thank you.
US director Clint Eastwood filmed her story under the title "The 15:17 to Paris".
Only on Wednesday the helpers of the terror series around the attack on the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in January 2015 were sentenced to prison terms.