The sentence has fallen.
On Wednesday June 29, Salah Abdeslam, 32, was sentenced to incompressible life imprisonment by the specially composed assize court.
An extremely rare sentence in French judicial history, having been pronounced only six times for a total of four people sentenced since its creation in 1994. The seriousness of this sanction is explained in particular by the fact that the court of assizes condemned Salah Abdeslam as a co-author of the Islamist killings of November 13, 2015, in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis.
The irreducible life sentence means that the defendant was sentenced to life in prison, with a 30-year security period.
In principle, Salah Abdeslam may ask to have his file re-examined at the end of this period.
Concretely,
how is this going to be?
Can he still be imprisoned for life?
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Life imprisonment is an unlimited prison sentence.
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