A French Court sentenced a man to four years imprisonment on Friday for renting a flat to terrorists who were on the run after the November 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 people.
Jawad Bendaoud was found guilty of concealing wanted terrorists by the Paris Court of Appeal, according to a statement from prosecutors.
Bendaoud claims not to have known that the three people who rented his run-down flat in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Nov. 15, were wanted over the attacks two days earlier.
Two gunmen and a female associate were killed when police raided the apartment on Nov. 18, sparking a fierce firefight in which one of the suspects blew himself up.
Bendaoud was acquitted in an initial trial in 2018 but prosecutors appealed the verdict.
Two, co-accused were also convicted in 2018 and sentenced to between four years (with one year suspended) and five years in prison.
One of the convictions was upheld on a Friday, while the other man had dropped his appeal.
The trial is the first in France over the Nov. 13, attacks, the worst in French history, which were claimed by the Islamic State extremist fighting force.
Three groups of attackers struck at the Bataclan theatre, cafe and restaurant terraces in eastern Paris, and outside the Stade de France stadium in Saint-Denis.
Salah Abdeslam, who is suspected of being the only surviving attacker, is currently in custody awaiting trial.
Abdeslam has already been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Belgium for attempted murder, over a 2016 shoot-out with police days before he was captured. (dpa/NAN)