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French court jails Moroccan for life over foiled 2015 train attack
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published : 18 Dec 2020 at 00:45 The court ruled that Ayoub El Khazzani, pictured left, would have committed an indiscriminate attack
PARIS - A French court on Thursday jailed for life a Moroccan man who planned a terror attack on a Paris-bound international train in 2015 but was thwarted by passengers including off-duty US soldiers.
The Paris court convicted Ayoub El Khazzani, now 31, over the August 2015 plot on the Amsterdam-Paris high-speed Thalys train and also issued sentences of between seven to 27 years to three accomplices.
The events inspired a 2018 film The 15:17 to Paris directed by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood who had at the start of the trial been mooted as a possible witness but in the end was not asked to appear.
Moroccan Ayoub el Khazzani had planned a gun attack on a high-speed train
On August 21, 2015 the heavily armed man appeared on the Thalys train
Passengers intervened to disarm and incapacitate Khazzani before he could kill anyone. There were about 150 passengers in the carriage
He was jailed for life by a Paris court on Thursday. Three accomplices received sentences of between seven and 27 years