Suspects linked to the Paris attacks sentenced in a Belgium court

A court in Belgium today sentenced the suspects linked to the Paris attacks.

A Belgian court has jailed four
leaders of a "terror cell" broken up in
a deadly raid in 2015, which had
alleged links to the men who staged
attacks in Paris and Brussels.
Marouan El Bali, who survived a
gunfight in January 2015 when police
shot dead two armed men, was given
16 years in prison on Tuesday, as
were two other members of the cell,
Mohammed Arshad Mahmood Najmi
and Souhaib El Abdi.
The judge said El Bali was in touch
with leading figures of armed groups
in Syria and was involved in tactical
discussions.

Prosecutors alleged the suspects were
members of an Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant (ISIL, also known as
ISIS) cell dismantled in a bloody raid
in the Belgian town of Verviers.
Prosecutors said the men standing
trial were in constant contact with
ISIL through the leader of the Paris
attacks in November, Abdelhamid
Abaaoud, and were planning an

attack in Belgium.