A French court has jailed a couple who fraudulently obtained 60,000 euros from a fund set up to help survivors of last year's jihadist attacks in Paris, reports BBC News.
Sasa Damjanovic, 36, was handed a six-year jail sentence and his partner Vera Vasic, 29, a term of three years - the heaviest prison sentences to be handed down in France in such a case.
They claimed to have been outside the Stade de France on November 13th 2015 when the suicide bombers struck. In fact they had been at home in Antibes.
The November 13th attacks killed 130 people in and around Paris.
The fraud by the couple from Antibes was exposed when they put in a claim for compensation for the Nice terror attack of July 14th this year. The Bastille Day attack killed 86 people on the Nice beachfront - victims of a lorry driver who smashed his huge vehicle into the crowd.
The court judgment in Grasse, near Nice and Antibes on the Cote d'Azur, said the penalty was intended to act as "an example".
The couple, who have two children, aged six and seven, admitted their crime in court.
The prosecutor, quoted by local daily Nice-Matin, said "as a citizen, man, woman, judge, how can you not be sickened by such behaviour?"
The couple have already spent the 60,000 euros - some of it on vehicles which they planned to re-sell. They told the court that they had sought the money to pay off debts.