The sole surviving member of an Islamic State group cell that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015 has not appealed his whole-life sentence for the killings, the Paris chief prosecutor said Tuesday.
Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was captured alive by police four months after the bloodbath at the Bataclan concert hall and other locations, the worst peace-time atrocity in modern French history.
He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the toughest possible punishment under French law.
The 19 others sentenced for their role leading up to and following the attacks also declined to appeal, prosecutor Remy Heitz told AFP.
They had 10 days to lodge any appeal after their sentencing, a deadline that expired at midnight Monday.
The decision of the special court handling the cases "has now acquired permanent status and there will not be an appeal trial", he said.
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