French authorities ordered charges against twenty terror suspects over the 2015 Paris attacks

French judges have charged 20 people over the ISIS-directed attacks on Paris in 2015 that killed 130 people.

This includes a Belgian man believed to have masterminded the attack who was once held in Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison before being freed and sent home.

Three of the group, including the alleged mastermind, Oussama Atar, are believed to have died in the group’s final months of fighting in Iraq and Syria.

Also accused is the only survivor of the Paris cell, Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested near his home in Brussels after months on the run. Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim, blew himself up in Paris.

Of the 20, 11 are jailed, three are under house arrest and six face international arrest warrants.

All are charged with terrorism offenses. Atar is charged as the leader.

The November 3 2015, attacks were linked to March 2016 bombings in Brussels.

Source: The National