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| Man guilty over terror suspect cash | Man guilty over terror suspect cash |
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| A 26-year-old man has been found guilty of giving £3,000 to a suspect in the Paris and Brussels terror attacks during a meeting in a Birmingham park months earlier. | |
| A jury convicted Zakaria Boufassil, from Birmingham, of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism. | A jury convicted Zakaria Boufassil, from Birmingham, of engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism. |
| A second man, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, has pleaded guilty to the same offence. | A second man, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, has pleaded guilty to the same offence. |
| Mohamed Abrini, the suspect dubbed the "man in the hat", received the money in July 2015, Kingston Crown Court heard. | |
| The defendants will be sentenced on 12 December. | |
| Prosecutors said the money came from a bank account set up by another man who had previously left the UK to fight with the so-called Islamic State group in Syria. | |
| Most of it was from benefits payments, the court heard. | |
| Abrini has been linked to the Brussels terror attack in March this year, which killed 32 people at an airport and metro station, the jury heard. He became known as the "man in the hat" after CCTV footage was released of him after the attack. | |
| Prosecuting, Max Hill QC told the court Abrini is also suspected of being connected to attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people. | |
| He said of the July 2015 meeting: "You can be sure that Ahmed, Abrini and Mr Boufassil met that day - that was the handover of the money to Abrini." | |
| But he told the jury the "actual use of the money handed to Abrini" was not part of the case. |