Paris attacks trial

Paris attacks trial
CourtPalais de Justice, Paris
Started8 September 2021
Decided29 June 2022
Court membership
Judges sittingJean-Louis Périès and four others

The Paris attacks trial (French: procès des attentats du 13 novembre 2015) was the trial in Paris, France, of twenty men accused of involvement in the Paris terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people and injured hundreds. The ten-month trial was the longest criminal trial in French history and took place in a specially built courtroom inside the Palais de Justice before five judges presided over by Jean-Louis Périès. The court sat for 148 days between 8 September 2021 and 27 June 2022. Verdicts were delivered on 29 June 2022. Nineteen of the twenty defendants were found guilty of all charges and sentenced to prison terms ranging from four years to full-life. One defendant was found guilty of fraud but not terrorist involvement and sentenced to two years imprisonment. In France the trial is also known as V13 as the attacks took place on Friday (French: vendredi) the 13th.