Prosecutors want life for surviving Paris attacks member

By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors have laid out their sentencing demands in the historic Paris trial of 20 men suspected of critical roles in France’s worst peacetime attack. The Islamic State massacres in Paris killed 130 people on Nov. 13, 2015. For Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of that night’s attacking jihadis, prosecutors demanded a life sentence. In all, French prosecutors asked for 10 life sentences for the defendants. The trial began in September and 14 defendants have been in court. All but one of the six absent defendants are presumed dead in Syria or Iraq. The jihadi killing spree in Paris led to intensified French action against extremists.