Paris attacks accused to appear before court in France

Paris Sep 9 (IANS) Jawad Bendaoud the landlord who provided his apartment to extremists who killed 130 people in November 2015 in Paris will appear before anti-terrorism judges media reports said.

Bendaoud was charged with of "harbouring terrorists " as magistrates believed he knew the identity of the extremists he accepted to host according to a report on state-run France info radio reported on Friday.

The man risked being jailed for ten years it added.

Five days after 130 people were killed in France s worst terror attack on November 13 2015 police killed Abdelhamid Abaaoud the assaults presumed mastermind in Bendaoud s flat in Saint-Denis near Paris.

Bendaoud told French media then he had been asked to do a favour and had no idea his hosts were extremists before being arrested Xinhua news agency reported.

The Islamic State claims responsibility of the Paris attacks which it called a revenge to French military operations against Muslims.

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