Salah Abdeslam

Salah Abdeslam ( French: [sala abdɛslam]; born 15 September 1989) is a Belgian Islamic terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison in France in 2022 as the only surviving member of a 10-man unit that carried out attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, in which 130 people were killed and more than 490 injured.

Abdeslam was born and raised in the Molenbeek district of Brussels. His family was of Moroccan origin but had acquired French nationality, which they passed on to their children. Abdeslam worked for two years at the Brussels public transport company STIB-MIVB until he drifted into petty crime and unemployment. From 2013, he helped his brother Brahim Abdeslam, who was a suicide bomber in the Paris attacks, run a Molenbeek café-bar which was a centre for drug dealing and watching Islamic State videos.