Three years imprisonment for a Frenchman who claimed to be a victim of the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015: This is the verdict of a court in Creteil southeast of Paris. It also condemned the 29-year-old last night to pay a fine of 20,000 euros. He had sneaked 77,000 euros from a sacrificial fund.
The young man claimed to have survived the attack on the Bataclan Music Club, where Islamists killed 130 people. At the conclusion of the process, he now apologized to the victims and the associations that are working to get compensation.
„I had just left my girlfriend“
„I was not feeling well, my girlfriend had just left me,“ said the man in the presence of several victims families. The authorities had included him in the official list of victims after he had submitted a ticket for the concert of the US band Eagles of Death Metal, which played on 13 November 2015 in Bataclan. The ticket was fake though. In addition, he had posed as a friend of a killed.
