The Franco-Moroccan Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the jihadist commandos who killed 130 people and injured another 350 in the Paris massacres of November 13, 2015, was sentenced to the most severe sentence in the maxi trial, to life imprisonment without the possibility of reductions or of penalty discounts.
In jargon, this sentence, the most serious in France so far reserved for only 4 defendants in history, is defined as the "
social death penalty
".
Salah Abdeslam
The young Italian Valeria Solesin
also lost her life in the Bataclan massacre
.
The president of the court said that
19 out of 20
defendants (only 14 present including Salah Abdeslam) were found guilty of voluntary killings.
