Brother of Paris Attacker Sent to Prison for Nine Years

His brother was one of the gunmen who shot dead 90 people at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris last year.

The terror attacks in Paris have so far claimed 128 lives. (Courtesy: AP)

• Karim Mohammed-Aggad, brother of one of the ISIS attackers who killed 130 people in Paris, was sentenced to nine years’ jail on Wednesday.
  
  
• He was tried for travelling to Syria in December 2013 on a train as a militant fighter.
  
  
• His brother Foued was one of the three men who killed 90 people in the Bataclan rock concert hall as part of a broader assault in and around Paris that killed 130 people in November 2015.
  
  
• Karim and six others, aged 24 to 27, were tried on charges of taking part in an ISIS recruitment network and receiving training.
  

(With Reuters inputs)

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