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At the beginning of the negotiations in September, one of the defendants (center) comes to the courtroom
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The founder of a far-right group in France, Logan Nisin, has been sentenced to nine years in prison without parole.
The judges found five other defendants guilty of "involvement in a terrorist organization".
"Everything indicates that the implementation of the plans was imminent," said the judge when reading the judgment in Paris.
Nisin had founded a group called OAS, which prosecutors believed were planning attacks on mosques and politicians.
The police broke up the group in October 2017.
Nisin has been in custody ever since.
He had praised the right-wing extremist assassin Anders Breivik on Facebook, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011.
Planned attack on the former interior minister
According to the prosecution, the group is also said to have planned attacks on the former interior minister Christophe Castaner and left-wing party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
OAS was originally the name of a French underground movement during the Algerian war that brutally tried to prevent Algeria from becoming independent.
It is the first verdict against a far-right group since the anti-terrorist prosecutor opened an investigation into 48 suspects in 2017.
During the trial, the prosecutor described right-wing and Islamist terrorism as two sides of the same coin.
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