French court gives 5-year sentence in terror plot
May 4, 2012
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PARIS—A French court has sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in prison for his role in plotting terrorism with al-Qaida's north African wing.
The court sentenced Adlene Hicheur, a former researcher at Switzerland's CERN laboratory, after a trial convicted him of "criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks."
Hicheur, who has been behind bars since he was arrested in October 2009, could have received a maximum 10 years in prison.
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