The Brussels Criminal Court delivered its verdict on Thursday, June 30, against Abid Aberkane, accused of having hosted Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the attacks of November 13, 2015. The court considered that the aid provided "to feed, house, dress" Salah Abdeslam was demonstrated.

Abid Aberkane acted "in full knowledge of the facts", knowing that the jihadist, who is his cousin, was then the most wanted man in Europe.

He was sentenced to three suspended sentences. 

It was in the Belgian capital, after four months on the run, that Salah Abdeslam found refuge at the home of Abid Aberkane's mother, where he stayed for the last three days before his arrest on March 18, 2016. 

In total, 14 people accused of having provided more or less significant assistance to certain perpetrators of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris (130 dead) were tried. 

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.

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.

Finally, a firm sentence of 18 months was pronounced against Soufiane Al Aroub, friend and logistical support of Ahmed Dahmani (sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment in the Paris trial, detained in Turkey), and 35 days firm against Lazez Abraïmi for drug trafficking. weapons.

Abid Aberkane 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 30-month suspended sentence.

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

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

With AFP

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