Jawad Bendaoud

Jawad Bendaoud is a French-Moroccan criminal convicted of harboring some of the terrorists involved in the November 2015 Paris attacks, including the mastermind of the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Bendaoud was sentenced to four years in prison in March 2019 for harboring Abaaoud and Chakib Akrouh, one of the other terrorists involved in the attacks. Bendaoud had previously been acquitted of the charges in February 2018. In August 2019, he was sentenced to an additional six months in prison for verbally assaulting a prison guard.