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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1989-09-15 ) 15 September 1989 (age 36) , Brussels , Belgium
- Known for
- November 2015 Paris attacks , 2016 Brussels bombings
- Convictions
- Terrorism, murder, attempted murder
- Criminal penalty
- Belgium: 20 years in prison France: life imprisonment without parole
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Brussels
- Occupation
- terrorist
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Image
- Salah Abdeslam (cropped).jpg
- Convicted of
- terrorism
- Significant event
- arrest
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- date of birth
- 1989-09-15
- allegiance
- Islamic State
- name in native language
- صلاح عبد السلام
- Commons category
- Salah Abdeslam
- penalty
- imprisonment
- medical condition
- COVID-19
- P10632
- Salah Abdeslam
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salah Abdeslam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.