He had hosted Salah Abdeslam at his mother's home in March 2016 in the Belgian capital.

Salah Abdeslam was then at the end of his run and the only surviving member of the November 13 commandos.

Abid Aberkane was given a three-year suspended prison sentence on Thursday in Brussels.

The Brussels Criminal Court judged a total of 14 people accused of having provided more or less significant assistance to certain perpetrators of the November 13 attacks.

These attacks perpetrated in 2015 in Paris and in the neighboring town of Saint-Denis, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, left 130 dead, including 90 murdered during a concert in the Parisian theater of Bataclan.

Among these defendants, four were acquitted, one received a work sentence, and three benefited from a suspension of the pronouncement of their conviction, in a very nuanced judgment, partly sweeping away the arguments of the prosecution.

Abid Aberkane, cousin of Salah Abdeslam

Two other defendants, presumed dead in the Iraqi-Syrian zone and tried in absentia, had already been convicted of terrorism in Belgium and received no additional sentence at this trial.

Abid Aberkane, cousin of Salah Abdeslam, is one of the two defendants targeted by a suspended prison sentence.

Abdoullah Courkzine, involved in the exfiltration of Abdelhamid Abaaoud in Saint-Denis near Paris after the attacks, received a thirty-month suspended sentence.

Finally, a firm sentence of eighteen months was pronounced against Soufiane Al Aroub, friend and logistical support of Ahmed Dahmani (sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment in the Paris trial, detained in Turkey), and thirty-five days firm against Lazez Abraïmi for arms trafficking.

This judgment fell the day after the verdict of the special assize court of Paris which, after ten months of hearing, condemned Wednesday evening a total of 20 men (including six tried by default) involved in the worst attacks ever committed in France.

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