Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead in a night of horror throughout Paris, has been given a life sentence by a French court, providing some closure for the survivors and a nation whose psyche has been traumatized.
Salah Abdeslam received the most severe criminal sentence imaginable in France—one that has previously been handed out only four times—after being convicted guilty of murder and terrorism charges with no chance of early release.
The Stade de France stadium, six clubs and restaurants, the Bataclan concert theatre, and 19 other persons who were charged with organizing the attacks on November 13, 2015, were all convicted as well. The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, declared that “justice had been done.”
One of our democracy’s greatest assets in the face of cruelty is its capacity to respond justly to the horrors that left our city and country in mourning. Paris honors the victims and their families and will always support them.”
