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Line 1: {{Use dmy dates\|date=November 2020}}▼ {{short description\|Belgian-Moroccan terrorist\|bot=PearBOT 5}} ▲{{Use dmy dates\|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person \| name = Mohamed Abrini Line 8: \| birth_place = [[Sint-Agatha-Berchem]], Belgium \| status = Serving a life sentence \|nationality= Belgian-Moroccan \| known_for = [[Islamic terrorism]] }} '''Mohamed Abrini''' ({{lang-ar\|محمد أبريني}}, born 27 December 1984) is a ~~[[Belgians\|~~Belgian]] [[Islamic terrorism\|Islamic terrorist]]. On 29 June 2022 he was convicted of involvement in the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]] and received a sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 22 years. HeIn July 2023 he was ~~due~~convicted toof goterrorist-related murder and onattempted ~~trial~~murder for his role in the [[2016 Brussels bombings]], inand ~~October~~given ~~2022;~~a ~~the start~~sentence of ~~the~~30 ~~trial was delayed unitl December 2022~~years. ==Personal background== Line 23: In June 2015 Abrini went to Syria to visit his brother's grave and met up with [[Abdelhamid Abaaoud]], another childhood friend from Molenbeek.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/faits-divers/terrorisme/attaques-du-13-novembre-a-paris/proces-des-attentats-du-13-novembre-2015/de-brioche-a-abou-yahya-le-parcours-de-mohamed-abrini-accuse-de-premier-plan-au-proces-des-attentats-du-13-novembre_4832883.html \|title=De "brioche" à "Abou Yahya", le parcours de Mohamed Abrini, accusé de premier plan au procès des attentats du 13-Novembre \|work=franceinfo \|date=8 November 2021 }}</ref> Abaaoud asked him to go to [[Birmingham]] to collect £3000, most of which came from housing benefit payments to a Syrian fighter.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38223310 \|title=Man found guilty over Belgium attacks terror suspect cash \|work=BBC \|date=6 December 2016 }}</ref> Abrini took part in preparations for the Paris attacks and, on 12 November 2015, set off for Paris in a convoy with the other ten terrorists. During the night he took a taxi back to Brussels, where he went into hiding.<ref name=FI>{{cite news \|url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/l-homme-au-chapeau-se-livre-sur-les-attentats-de-paris-et-bruxelles-6957170 \|title=L'homme au chapeau se livre sur les attentats de Paris et Bruxelles \|work=France Inter \|date=4 April 2017 }}</ref> Two days later he was identified as a suspect when CCTV footage emerged of him with Abdeslam at a service station on 11 November 2015.<ref name=2BBC>{{cite news \|title=Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels \|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36000407 \|work=[[BBC News]] ~~\|access-date=8 April 2016~~ \|date=9 April 2016 \|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> ==Brussels bombings and arrest== {{main\|2016 Brussels bombings}} While he was in hiding in Brussels, Abrini took part in preparations for the Brussels bombings. On 22 March 2016, he went to [[Brussels Airport]] in [[Zaventem]] with two other suicide bombers, [[Najim Laachraoui]] and [[Ibrahim el-Bakraoui]], but fled without detonating his suitcase of explosives. He was arrested on 8 April 2016 in the Brussels district of [[Anderlecht]] and admitted to being the "man in a hat" who had been captured on CCTV at the airport alongside the suicide bombers.<ref name=2BBC~~>{{cite news \|title=Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels \|url=https:~~/~~/www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36000407 \|work=[[BBC News]] \|access-date=8 April 2016 \|date=9 April 2016 \|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref~~><ref name=FI/> ==Paris trial== Line 37: ==Brussels trial== Abrini was due to stand trial for his role in the Brussels bombings in October 2022 but the start of the trial was delayed when lawyers objected to the individual glass cubicles that had been provided for the defendants. The cubicles were replaced by a glass box in the specially built courtroom in the former [[NATO]] headquarters.<ref>{{cite news \|url=https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220923-brussels-terror-attacks-trial-postponed-over-glass-box-bungle \|title=Brussels terror attacks trial postponed over 'glass box' bungle \|work=France24 \|date=23 September 2022 }}</ref> After a trial lasting seven months and jury deliberations lasting eighteen days, Abrini was found guilty of terrorist-related murder and attempted murder.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66299186\|title=Brussels bombers found guilty after long murder trial\|date=25 July 2023\|work=BBC News}}</ref> He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/eight-men-sentenced-over-2016-brussels-bombings-ending-belgiums-largest-ever-criminal-trial\|title=Eight men sentenced over 2016 Brussels bombings, ending Belgium's largest-ever criminal trial\|date=16 September 2023\|work=The Guardian}}</ref> == See also == Line 46: {{Brussels ISIL terror cell}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Abrini, Mohamed}} [[Category:1984 births]] [[Category:~~Living~~Belgian ~~people~~mass murderers]] [[Category:Belgian people of Moroccan-Berber descent]] [[Category:~~Belgian~~Islamic ~~Islamists~~terrorism in Belgium]] [[Category:~~Berber~~Living ~~Islamists~~people]] [[Category:Moroccan Islamists]] [[Category:Perpetrators of the 2016 Brussels bombings]] [[Category:Islamic ~~terrorism~~State inof Iraq and the Levant members from Belgium]] [[Category:~~Belgian~~Islamist mass murderers]]