Islamic militants jailed for French Metro bombings

A court in Paris has convicted and sentenced two Islamic militants to life in prison for their roles in a 1995 campaign of bombings of the Paris Metro that killed eight and wounded more than 200.

Boualem Bensaid and Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, members of a radical Algerian insurgency movement, are already serving prison sentences. They had been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison in September 1999 for criminal association with a terrorist organisation.