A court has found 19 people guilty of terrorism-related charges in the 2015 Paris attacks trial - the deadliest peacetime attack on France.
Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect, has been jailed for life without the possibility of parole.
The Bataclan music hall, six bars and restaurants and the perimeter of the Stade de France sports stadium were targeted in hours-long attacks that killed 130 people.
Exceptional in its length, the trial has lasted 10 months and devoted time to allowing victims to testify in detail about their ordeal and their struggles in overcoming the attack, while families of those killed spoke of how hard it was to move on.
Of the 20 men on trial, fourteen defendants were in court while six, including five senior officials from the militant Islamic State group, are being tried in absentia, with most of them presumed to have died fighting for ISIS in Syria or Iraq.
The mammoth legal process – the biggest in French history – began in September.
Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect, who faces possible life imprisonment without parole, a sentence only handed out four times in France so far, started the trial by proudly saying he was a "soldier" of Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Prosecutors allege that Abdeslam’s explosive vest malfunctioned and that he then ran away from the French capital in the hours after the Friday 13thattack.
"I’m going to explain myself because this is the last time I can do it,’ he said while being cross-examined in April.
"I’m going to do the best I can, I’m going to do my best,’ he said, as he complained about his portrayal in the media.
Abdeslam said he had first been told about the plans for the attack by Abdelhamid Abaaoud – the leader of the Isis cell, who died in an explosion afterwards.
"He told me about blowing myself up and it was a shock,’ said Abdeslam. ‘I was thinking of going to Syria. I didn’t feel ready".
Days after his arrest in March 2016 after a four-month manhunt that ended in a shootout in Brussels, suicide bombers alleged to be part of the same cell struck at the city’s airport and on the city Metro, killing 32 and injuring hundreds.
Abdeslam has already been sentenced in Brussels to 20 years in prison for the shootout that accompanied his arrest.
Also facing life in prison was Mohamed Abrini, Abdeslam’s 36-year-old childhood friend, who is believed to have travelled to the Paris region with the attackers.
Abrini was later captured on CCTV with the two Brussels airport bombers and became known as ‘The Man in the Hat’.
The investigation into all those involved in the Paris trial took six years and its written conclusions stretch to 53 metres (174 feet) when lined up.
But he later apologised to the victims.
Thirteen other people, 10 of whom are also in custody, were also in the courtroom, accused of crimes ranging from helping provide the attackers with weapons or cars to planning to take part in the attack. Six more were tried in absentia.
The ruling can be challenged on appeal.
Defendants are not required to enter a plea in French trials.
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