RABAT (AFP) -
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Moroccan court has sentenced the younger brother of suspected Paris
attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud to two years in prison on charges
including justifying terrorism, state media reported.
According to
his lawyer, Yassine Abaaoud was unaware of the activities of his
brother, who was killed in a French police raid just days after the
November 13 attacks that killed 130 people in Paris.
Moroccan
intelligence helped put French investigators on the trail of Abdelhamid
Abaaoud, a 28-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin who had appeared in
grisly Islamic State group videos and was linked to a series of plots in
Europe.
Five other defendants were sentenced to between two and
five years in prison on separate terrorism related cases by the same
court in Rabat's twin city Sale on Thursday, the MAP state news agency
reported.
Morocco, on guard against deadly attacks like those seen
in Tunisia, says it has broken up 152 "terrorist cells" since 2002,
including 31 with ties to jihadists in Iraq and Syria since 2013.
© 2016 AFP
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