France orders charges against 20 over 2015 Paris attacks

Mastermind believed to have been killed fighting for ISIS in Syria or Iraq

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 file photo, investigating police officers inspect the lifeless body of a victim of a shooting attack outside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. French judges investigating the 2015 Islamic State attacks that left 130 people dead in Paris have ordered charges against 20 people on Monday, including a Belgian accused of masterminding the attacks who was held for years in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq before being freed and returned home. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

The attack targeting the Bataclan concert hall left 90 dead. AP

Mar 16, 2020

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.

The Paris attacks killed 130 people on a single day in Paris four years ago. AFP

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.