Prosecutor Asks for Prison Terms in Paris Terror Trial

A victim under a blanket lies dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

PARIS (AP) — A French prosecutor has requested four years in prison for a man accused of harboring killers in the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris, less than the maximum term.

In closing arguments Tuesday, Nicolas Le Bris said Jawad Bendaoud knew he was hiding criminals, but that there wasn’t sufficient evidence he knew they were involved in the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks.

However, he called for the maximum five-year sentence for co-defendant Youssef Ait-Boulhacen, arguing that Ait-Boulhacen knew who the men were, what they had done, and that they were plotting another attack.

Ait-Boulahacen’s sister, Hasna, found the hideout for the fugitives and died with them in a police standoff.

The trial is the first time a French court has heard a case related to the attacks, which killed 130 people.

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