Moroccan national Ayoub El Khazzani, who was overpowered by off-duty US soldiers when he attempted to launch a shooting attack on passengers of an Amsterdam-Paris Thalys train on August 21st 2015, and three other men charged with helping him appeared in a Paris court on Monday at the start of their trial which is expected to last until December 17th.
Mohamed Bakkali, 30, who is accused of knowingly offering his Brussels apartment to attackers who took part in the November 13th 2015 terrorist attacks in and around Paris which left 130 people dead, has been extradited to France, just as the Paris trial of Jawad Bendaoud, 31, continues into his alleged conspiracy with the Islamic State group cell which were housed in a property belonging to him in a suburb close to the French capital.
