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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Prosecutors ask for life sentences for 12 men at Paris attacks trial

French lawyers outside the courtroom in Paris on Friday.
French lawyers outside the courtroom in Paris on Friday. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA

French prosecutors have called for life sentences for 12 of the 20 men suspected of key roles in the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks on a stadium, bars and restaurants and a rock gig at the Bataclan concert hall.

As the biggest criminal trial ever held in France entered its final weeks, prosecutors summed up the evidence and regretted that there were still key, unanswered questions about the coordinated attacks that killed 130 people and injured more than 490.

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