One of the Muslim terrorists who carried out the Paris attacks of November 13 2015 killing 130 people has been awarded compensation for breach of his privacy while in prison.
Salah Abdeslam (29) faces multiple life sentences for his alleged role in the atrocity which saw co-ordinated attacks across the French capital, the most devastating of which took place on the Bataclan theatre while a rock concert was taking place.
In the famous Parisian theatre, Islamist gunmen shot dead 89 concert goers before using blades to castrate and mutilate wounded survivors.
For his part Abdeslam abandoned his suicide mission at the Stade de France during a football international between France and Germany while his brother, Brahim Abdeslam, detonated a suicide bomb vest at a nearby café.
Abdeslam would be captured by police in the heavily migrant populated Brussels suburb of Molenbeek in March 2016.
However, a court in Versailles, west of Paris, has ruled the CCTV cameras in Abdeslam’s solitary cell which watch him 24 hours a day, are a breach of his privacy and awarded €500 in compensation.
The Versailles Administrative Court determined that authorities supervising Abdeslam went too far in their surveillance of a man who took part in the deadliest terror attack in French history.
The 24-hour surveillance cameras set up in his cell were ruled illegal in March 2017.
French journalist Elsa Vigoureux who is releasing a new book on the would-be Jihadi suicide attacker confirmed that he had received the payment to his bank account.
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